From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 20:14:14 2011 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 E688F106566B for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from magik@roorback.net) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D138FC16 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so755756qwj.13 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.126.140 with SMTP id c12mr6142739qas.246.1299701653231; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:14:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.226.145 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:13:53 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [89.72.104.219] In-Reply-To: References: <20110308162439.GA98584@lpthe.jussieu.fr> From: Grzegorz Blach Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:13:53 +0100 Message-ID: To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Michel Talon , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood! 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, 09 Mar 2011 20:14:15 -0000 On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:13, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Warren Block wrote: >> >> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Michel Talon wrote: > >>> My experience is that all FreeBSD ports tools are incredibly slow, be i= t >>> portupgrade, portmaster, even the basic tools like pkg_version. Maybe i= t >>> would help to recognize that such observations are perhaps not unrelate= d to >>> the original poster comments. >> >> I don't understand what you mean by that last sentence. =C2=A0OP was tal= king >> about the difficulty of using or merging alternate ports trees, AFAIR. S= orry >> about the topic drift; we can start a new thread if appropriate. > > And of course now I see it: the OP also mentioned the delay in rebuilding > INDEX after merging ports trees. > > That was a problem back before the ports cluster built INDEX files for > download, and there were Perl and other implementations that could rebuil= d a > local index faster than the stock ports implementation. =C2=A0Can't recal= l > exactly what they were. =C2=A0If still applicable, integrating those fast= er > methods into the ports system would be a solid improvement. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Building INDEX is not essential in this thread, merging trees is closer to subject, but primary I want, that testing development version of ports will be simpl= er. Please look at: 'Firefox 4 - Beta' threat: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-March/066353.html some people don't known where they can find freebsd-gecko development repo. Or at 'xorg-server 1.9.3 and 1.10.0' threat: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-March/066421.html Martin wrote: > I'll cleanup all the mess and commit all stuff to the xorg-dev repo. Mayb= e > someone have intressing to test it. but without any info where I can find xorg-dev repo, How I can test new xorg, since I don't known where this repo is?