From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 19:50:09 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 3AFE216A580; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA2E43D81; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A4A1A4D7A; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EAC2051398; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:49:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:49:44 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Achilleus Mantzios Message-ID: <20060602194944.GA70015@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060602143756.GB66066@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Mark Linimon , java@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: 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 19:50:10 -0000 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:23:45PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > O Kris Kennaway ?????? ???? Jun 2, 2006 : >=20 > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:42:28PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > >=20 > > > Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial > > > property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branche= s, > > > but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange > > > for packages in=20 > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/ > > > to progressively match those of > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable? > >=20 > > Please give us about 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines first, > > thanks :-) >=20 > Just some notes: >=20 > 1) Whould it take 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines > to just copy packages from > /ports/i386/packages-6-stable > to > /ports/i386/packages-6.1-release > ???????? Those packages are not built for 6.1-release, are not tested for 6.1-release and some will not run on 6.1-release. If you want to use the 6-stable packages anyway, you can easily do so (see the pkg_add manpage). > 2) Actually we used to have a sparc64 machine which we donated thru=20 > FreeBSD Foundation to Maxim Henrion (mux) already ;-) Thanks for your dontation, but mux doesn't build packages so this didn't help me :-) Kris --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEgJZYWry0BWjoQKURAifTAJ4p8i5FFap2jYs/CZcwlYBc+37xBwCeOg1D uXE7BWAs3bOrl8Eqo+BWSzM= =+47S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--