From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 07:23:26 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 547BD106568B; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE3F8FC12; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o067PBE5003330; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:25:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o067PAOr003327; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:25:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:25:10 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: John Hay In-Reply-To: <20100106071059.GA46019@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> Message-ID: References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <20100106071059.GA46019@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Martin Cracauer , Doug Barton , 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: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:23:26 -0000 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