Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:27:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: Lena@lena.kiev.ua, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obsolete packages Message-ID: <20060424222727.GA20219@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <444D1BEF.5010704@computer.org> References: <20060424165021.GA1367@lena.kiev> <444D1BEF.5010704@computer.org>
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--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > Lena@lena.kiev.ua wrote: > >Hi, > > > >A new version of a port (www/firefox) was released on April 14. > > > ># portversion -v firefox > >firefox-1.5.0.1,1 < needs updating (port has 1.5.0.2,1) > > > >But packages still (on April 24) are of previous version: > > > >$ ftp ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ > >ftp> dir packages-5-stable/All/firefox-1* > >-rw-r--r-- 1 110 0 11188636 Apr 01 16:29=20 > >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz > >ftp> dir packages-6-stable/All/firefox-1* > >-rw-r--r-- 1 110 0 11511879 Apr 02 10:21=20 > >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz > >ftp> dir packages-7-current/All/firefox-1* > >-rw-r--r-- 1 110 0 11511428 Apr 03 04:40=20 > >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz > > > >Is something broken or is there insufficient computing power for > >building new packages more often? >=20 > It's my understanding that packages are built "when possible". They=20 > often lag that which is in ports. There are only so many cycles in a=20 > day (per cpu and per person). I would assume that there is some logical= =20 > order in which the packages are built (most used first? Though not sure= =20 > how that would be determined) I continuously rebuild packages using a method that only builds "changed" packages (new, updated to new version or with a dependency that was changed). This typically gives a turnaround time on i386 of less than a day to several days for packages becoming available, but as I said in another reply I'm not uploading them now because of the looming release cycle. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFETVDOWry0BWjoQKURAiXXAKDi2fMr728pmweta9P5mI03OSmQtQCgkP0r ekkrKqxGLo2m7RpgG1X30MQ= =XoAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--
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