From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 17:51:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2127106564A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp2.iomartmail.com (asmtp2.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BD08FC0A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp2.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp2.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9DHp8WZ000830; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:51:08 +0100 Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (80-45-152-196.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.45.152.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp2.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9DHp7EK000825; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:51:08 +0100 Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AB1F733C1F; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:51:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:51:07 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Yuri Message-ID: <20101013175107.GA74687@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4CB5E081.8070809@rawbw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CB5E081.8070809@rawbw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many binary packages are missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:51:11 -0000 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:38:25AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > > I am updating i386 system (portupgrade -aP) and whole lot of binary > packages are missing. > For example, gcc-4.5.0, qt4-corelib are examples of large packages that > are missing that don't require too many dependencies and are very basic. gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or its applications. > > I know, it may be caused by failed dependencies, copyright restrictions, > etc. But it's hard to imagive why they are missing for these two: no > copyright restrictions, and almost no dependencies. > > This unfortunately slows down many people. > Is there any solution to this problem? Maybe people just forget about > this build server and some minor fix wil help? It's a case of having space on the servers IIRC. Also some require too many options to be set at build time (probably the problem with qt). I know it's the reason why OO.o is not packaged - too many languages & other options. > > Yuri Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html