From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 23:53:31 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90683F64 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-x22e.google.com (mail-oi0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52CD9259 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f46.google.com with SMTP id a141so14547041oig.5 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:53:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=lQHR1cIw5jMWoWqKUWLAZICfnjF/xw67Z+8mEvHSFKc=; b=bwy1gSXNJy90lzTt0fVSNiYnhgNziboXU6eBU37K/89AndxHIsxkObUoyEgkV9LLq0 tDgmnHW3uP2YGnnMAl3uHT/pXtQsVktwX1DYp6LkE1Dd1wbB0DvSVatK2LojRxuwiQF6 KWADdh8g7lUZrOmGyOmvAX6I8QbdbX8PMHb9N1KBfCAGqOwgDBAWNUkTOUAKYAMREWuK Y9cJkrcV76sGDrux+UGlAKzr9bDuWPE4glm7tgarCq52Gk8eK4UmhV2BTVzg9IT50bRv DdbomhCg2U9rgMlCkQEasEDSGPe36W48fNNAWTFg2mHGFP9YNQxUEDrBsCgAeEm0kYxK 8PRw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.62.241 with SMTP id b17mr26484737oes.17.1421884410687; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.247.74 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:53:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net> References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:53:30 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates From: jungle Boogie To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:53:31 -0000 HI William, On 21 January 2015 at 13:47, William A. Mahaffey III 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