Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:47:39 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates Message-ID: <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org>
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On 01/21/15 15:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 2015/01/21 19:17, David Newman wrote: >> How often is the FreeBSD pkg repository updated? >> >> Asking because 'sudo pkg audit' sometimes shows vulnerabilities in one >> or more packages, yet 'sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade -f <pkg >> name>' offers only to reinstall the vulnerable version. >> >> An updated pkg can take days to show up. The ports tree is updated much >> faster, but I'm trying to move to pkg where possible. (Yes, I know I >> could run poudriere and create a pkg repository, but I'm asking here >> about FreeBSD's pkg system.) >> >> This is on 10.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64. > Packages are built weekly from a snapshot of the ports taken on a > Wednesday at (I think) 01:00 UTC. It's definitely some time on > Wednesday though. The package builders then build all of the packages > for all the supported release branches + HEAD, which takes until some > time the following weekend. > > Thus if a package of interest to you updates on a Thursday, it can be > about 10 days before an updated package is available from the repos. > > More hardware is being procured to cut down the time it takes to build > packages, so the update frequency should improve. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmmmm .... So the individual pkg's are actually built by .... who ? The pkg maintainer ? A central coordinating body ? Somebody/Something else ? Inquiring minds wanna know .... They might also be interested in contributing hardware if that would noticeably speed things up ;-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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