From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 6 11:20:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D98B741 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:20:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from t.mueller1@insightbb.com) Received: from mail.insightbb.com (smtp.insight.synacor.com [208.47.185.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1481A40 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:20:53 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=ct6izTIi c=1 sm=0 tr=0 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:117 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:17 a=K-v-2zaBAAAA:8 a=GJ58-ISPpYMA:10 a=DvSzqBOGy98A:10 a=pedpZTtsAAAA:8 a=zZw0S7lLT5oA:10 a=icdV9osjAAAA:8 a=jcoBeIJv_dZq17qjCMkA:9 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp02.insight.synacor.com smtp.mail=t.mueller1@insightbb.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: smtp02.insight.synacor.com header.from=mueller6724@bellsouth.net; sender-id=neutral Received-SPF: softfail (smtp02.insight.synacor.com: transitional domain insightbb.com does not designate 74.130.198.7 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.130.198.7] ([74.130.198.7:43835] helo=localhost) by mail.insightbb.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTP id 35/C9-15901-2FF60B15; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:18:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <35.C9.15901.2FF60B15@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:20:54 -0000 > cross posting this from hackers by request) > Thanks to poudriere making this easy, we're now making public our (unofficial!) constantly being rebuilt repository of binary packages for old FreeBSD > +releases and less popular architectures. > See http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages for instructions on how to use this. > How do these differ from the official packages? > 1) We're building packages for 9.1 all the way back to 7.2. > 2) We're constantly grabbing new versions of ports and rebuilding as fast as the builders can go. Our goal is to rebuild the latest version (9.1 right now) > in both amd64 and i386 every 24 hours, and all other versions every 7 days. > 3) We're leaving up old versions (in the All directory) of everything, so you can grab older versions if we have them. > 4) We're building everything twice, one by default and one a special internal-use version that has X11, examples, debugging and a few other features shut > off. If the port can't be built without those features, it just gets skipped. (This may not be of use to anyone other than us) > 5) We're building packages for i386, amd64, ia64, and have the hardware in house to build for PPC, ARM and sparc64 if anyone asks for it. > (As of this writing, our ia64 box just started building things, and looks like it'll take another 5+ days to finish. If you need ia64, give it a few days.) > Feel free to contact me with any questions, or suggestions for how this might be more useful to you. If you could actually use this on any other release or > architecture that isn't currently listed, please let me know. If there's anyone out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style packages, we > might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for our own internal use so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if nobody is going to > use this, so speak up if you want something! > -- Kevin Currently building ports from the source, I don't know if I would use these binary packages, but for pkgng, since FreeBSD is pushing users to switch from old-style packages, it might be good to provide pkgng packages for the newer releases of FreeBSD, >= 9.0, maybe not worthwhile on 8.x and earlier. Tom