Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:28:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package generation on FreeBSD ftp server Message-ID: <20101001062832.GA37936@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <4CA57D11.3020406@gwdg.de> References: <4CA57D11.3020406@gwdg.de>
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:17:53AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote: > I have a question about packages at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/ . > > They are automatically generated from time to time. I understand > that this depends on computing capacities on the server farm etc. So > some packages are relatively new, some are older and some are > missing... > > For example, for math/saga there had been a package saga-2.0.4_4.tbz > for some time. After updating SAGA GIS to version 2.0.5 there is no > package any more. > > There was an error on building math/saga in first half of september, see > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?portname=saga > > This was corected and the new SAGA GIS version has to differentiate > between i386 and amd64 because of dependency libiodbc (patch > problem). > > Does this prevent from automatic package generation? > > I would be happy if someone could give an explaination on this. My impression has always been that the packages **are not** updated automatically, and are done manually + updated manually by someone. This is confirmed by the high amount of variance in timestamps on all the symlinks in the All/ directory (see for yourself). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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