From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Oct 8 17:18:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C1A37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5E743E3B for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g990IQPg026017 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:18:26 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:18:26 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7R is at ftp2 - packages query In-Reply-To: <20021008232603.GD85822@yttrium.gaultopia.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -104.4, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Erik Gault wrote: > ready to go... 4.7-R is also at ftp.au.freebsd.org and ready to go. i do have a query - has the various issues with packages building been sorted out ? i understand there was some issues with .gz and .bz stuff. is the future direction confirmed that it will be a package tree for every release (at approx 4-6G? each time). is packages-4-stable deprecated or undergoing renovation or.. personally i am just trying to understand how packages will work in the future. is packages-4-stable a sort of "new and updated packages builds will be made available here in response to security issues or updates" while packages-4.7-release is a "packages here are frozen at the time of release and will never be updated in this tree" ? regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message