From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 23:27:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD571065692; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.ipv6.droso.net [IPv6:2001:6c8:6:c:20d:56ff:fe6f:f935]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B498FC15; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 549771CC0A; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:27:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:27:46 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20100105232745.GP25103@droso.net> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ayeiFF771fbkZqVc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:27:49 -0000 --ayeiFF771fbkZqVc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > It's time to bite the bullet. My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just > > can't keep up with the port building. I need OpenOffice and stuff and > > the party is really over at that point. I need something with binary > > packages. > >=20 > > Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have > > prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? >=20 > Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for > most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is > that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all > branches. >=20 I'm sorry to say this, Doug, because I know you mean well, but this is not the first time you act as a spokeman for things you have no knowledge about and, again, get things wrong. Please stick to things you do know. Openoffice builds are attempted at all supported branches and platforms on each and every run. Unfortunately, they quite often fail due to several reasons, ranging from the code being quite large and complicated, and therefore very fragile, to too small hardware on some of the cluster nodes. The unfortunate end-result is therefore that finished packages are very sporadicaly available and the dedicated project mentioned in another reply in this thread is probably a better source, but we do use a large amount of resources to get those packages out there and have certainly not given up. -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --ayeiFF771fbkZqVc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLQ8rxqy9aWxUlaZARAlykAKDQokwHTYj6O8xmUntQliKqfHAGywCcDg5Y XNTgWk5g+Nkr6uZksXe98jc= =70w1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ayeiFF771fbkZqVc--