Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:25:10 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001060820110.3246@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20100106071059.GA46019@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001052334580.2317@pukruppa.net> <20100106071059.GA46019@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, John Hay wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: >> >>> Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800: >>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have >>>>> prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable? >>> >>> I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE? >>> >>>>> What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0 >>>>> and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release >>>>> binary packages? >>>> >>>> RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_ 8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you >>>> want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to >>>> update the tag each time a new security branch is created. >>> >>> RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as >>> portupgrade is concerned. >>> >>> RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK and I was hoping that I >>> could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the >>> binary packages a insert them appropriately). >>> >>> If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce >>> portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine, >>> too. >>> >>> Martin >> Have a look at porting.openoffice.org/freebsd . >> You will find something that works for you. > > It depends on what you have. Say you have 8.0 i386 or even 7.2 i386. No > binaries for you there then. I have to admit, I have got an amd64. But you might be able to run the 7.1 -STABLE version with misc/compat7 installed. Did you try? Greetings Uli > John > -- > John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany
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