From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 13:30:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8ED16A4CF for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (host2.dynacom.ondsl.gr [62.103.35.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DD643D70 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k52DfLew003362 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:41:21 +0300 Received: from localhost (achill@localhost) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id k52DfL3R003358 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:41:21 +0300 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:41:21 +0300 (EEST) From: Achilleus Mantzios To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Just a ports related question 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: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:30:05 -0000 I am in the process of upgrading my dev system to 6.1-RELEASE. Its the first time i go with a -RELEASE instead of a dev branch because i hoped this way portupgrade -P would make more sense. Into my surprise however i notice that even 3 month old s/w releases like Python 2.4.3 (March 29, 2006) still are not reflected in the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/ tree (for the case of Python the package file existent is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/lang/python-2.4.2.tbz last updated 27/02/2006 15:08:00) Provided that 6.1-RELEASE was out on Mon, 08 May 2006 wouldn't make more sense if packages like Python were updated? The definetaly are updated in the ports tree. (Which subsequently mean much more lenghty portupgrade -P, wich result in source compilation). Has anyone a clue on the issue? (maybe the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release contents has the meaning of what used to exist in there when 6.1 was released, who knows....) It seems that setting setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ seems to relief the issue, but i dont seem to understand why tweeking is always necessary even if dealing with -RELEASE. Would make more sense for ports if the tag=. was changed to tag=RELENG_6_1 ? Just curious, and i hope someone would shed some light. -- -Achilleus