Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:53:30 -0800 From: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates Message-ID: <CAKE2PDv9v5zNq0S1Sk7otsu9wkTLEpTB-b7M6pXYaKYGtOsaMg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net> References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net>
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HI William, On 21 January 2015 at 13:47, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: >> On 2015/01/21 19:17, David Newman wrote: >>> >> How often is the FreeBSD pkg repository updated? >>> >> > > 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 ;-) .... > A website that may interest you (maybe you already know about it): https://www.freshports.org/ Search for a package like ack: http://www.freshports.org/textproc/ack/ Gives a description up top and the maintainer (sometimes a group) and if you scroll down, you'll see when it was last updated and why. Some may reference a PR like this update: http://www.freshports.org/www/neon If you review that in Bugzilla, it will explain what's changed, by whom, and why: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195786 Freshports.org isn't run by the freeBSD project but by an awesome guy: https://twitter.com/dlangille And seen here in color TV: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_12_31-daemons_in_the_north > -- > > William A. Mahaffey III > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > > Best, jungle -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si
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