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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:16:18 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Giancarlo Rubio <giancarlo.rubio@pucpr.br>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiled packages
Message-ID:  <20061109191618.GA43114@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1163088127.1885.9.camel@freebsd>
References:  <1163088127.1885.9.camel@freebsd>

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:02:07PM -0200, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
>=20
> Hello:
>=20
> How works the procces for pre-compiled packages in tree
> directory /All and the /Latest on freebsd ftp?
>=20
> Wich time a package was updated on /Latest? And time move to /All??

Latest/ is just a symlink to the version in All/ (the file is named
differently; Latest/ doesn't have the full version string and is used
by e.g. pkg_add -r).  This is just the way that 'make package' creates
the packages in /usr/ports/packages.

Kris

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