From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 6 14:18:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEA011B for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toasty@dragondata.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C19D165C for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id aq17so7145777iec.19 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:18:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dragondata.com; s=google; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=js+pdRfUG0MXmSjKvz4WEF/6uGXu4Hkyd0GdNxqB4Wo=; b=g9viyH67x9R9QmVACjtdzou/XQeK6F76AFd5zvGyfQpq5VvE/Hxj+EpjO1PTU5VNgd 2ST90ev2YydT6dya/wXggYIpDzmguy5Dy8bQ1R0l+GiWDF1rZ9ljrl/Qt/W4R0+dEPCO iaGz4mjVGGbvn9Wp+VT7t2QuTKTyhThp94ugQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=js+pdRfUG0MXmSjKvz4WEF/6uGXu4Hkyd0GdNxqB4Wo=; b=WZ5/XewoiE7xDHX6CODrzOM5MoQASmtJCzqBXmYGHVeMNihGxIcdYIyNiksXg3BQMV Qq5jFKQ7qIBvUpNsq5DbhMxP2UNuiBJFyxy0UVBX3PmWuxGFiV3czpVFog3NbqvIMk1V 6NhjMoQq+bLcRyY5iz+aKGu9TcjW3WhpSYaiiUVPzeyTiskoWfWKtprkroeXfp2MXFoV K4nnST3EMb+LjV5wPe7gobUwfXOnpbk1qbXbJ0FOqMcyv5pbIE5fQ5g2K1AYS/O4x1zG zfpYTrkCH735JRyQT9/17L2HnRQUFUacgYvUaUo6EBO51FwnL9WizpU8mcL8FjKreh+P r5fg== X-Received: by 10.50.1.102 with SMTP id 6mr5871239igl.64.1370528334025; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vpn132.rw1.your.org (vpn132.rw1.your.org. [204.9.51.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gz1sm11491162igb.5.2013.06.06.07.18.52 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases From: Kevin Day In-Reply-To: <35.C9.15901.2FF60B15@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:18:51 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <35.C9.15901.2FF60B15@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> To: "Thomas Mueller" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn7DTT1BtU3dye3Z7LHz1n81Ih5YUVmCyvFBpxFkV11AXF8vz0/p2+Qq46XOjz4lrHYTRaI Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 14:18:54 -0000 On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:18 AM, "Thomas Mueller" = wrote: >=20 > 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, >=3D 9.0, maybe not = worthwhile on 8.x and earlier. >=20 Okay, a few dozen people have asked for pkgng packages now, so I'll get = those started ASAP. Also working on PPC packages.