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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:35:55 -0400
From:      grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox missing from pkg FTP
Message-ID:  <CAD2Ti2_u%2BhxfyrXyo8tsZcBUNusENT%2BSt%2B%2BBmBHgC7D8MYMFdA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <97c592043bf97ec52552d9ea20669b7d@bluelife.at>
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> Is it that 4.1.10 was released less than 24h ago and the ports
> are not updated yet?

Not at all, just an inventory. Lag time on new releases is totally
understandable. They need ported and tested. And life is first
priority :)

> Is it because 4.1.8 packages for 8-stable are not available?

Using the packages-major-stable example for 8 and 9, we have this
FTP index. Notably, RELENG_8 i386 is missing the base 'virtualbox-ose'
package. I think it used to be there last month.

8sa: 69174652 Mar 08 02:43 virtualbox-ose-4.1.8.tbz
8sa:  1039991 Mar 08 22:58 virtualbox-ose-additions-4.1.8.tbz
8sa:   110285 Mar 07 22:13 virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.1.8_1.tbz
8sa:   107500 Mar 08 02:12 virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy-4.0.16.tbz

8si:   953365 Feb 29 14:33 virtualbox-ose-additions-4.1.8.tbz
8si:   109301 Feb 28 20:41 virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.1.8_1.tbz
8si:   106336 Feb 29 01:05 virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy-4.0.16.tbz

9sa: 69315786 Mar 05 22:56 virtualbox-ose-4.1.8.tbz
9sa:  1062649 Mar 06 09:15 virtualbox-ose-additions-4.1.8.tbz
9sa:   110743 Mar 05 17:46 virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.1.8_1.tbz
9sa:   108026 Mar 05 22:33 virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy-4.0.16.tbz

9si: 64462589 Feb 08 10:42 virtualbox-ose-4.0.14.tbz
9si:  1052081 Feb 09 06:06 virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.14.tbz
9si:   106199 Jan 30 18:51 virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.14.tbz
9si:    96474 Jan 30 20:32 virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy-3.2.12_3.tbz
9si: 53094010 Feb 09 07:13 virtualbox-ose-legacy-3.2.12_3.tbz

> Is it because the packages are not identical to the current ports?

The svn port -> FTP building process is presumed to have some delay.
Likely because, even though parallelism might yield a complete build
of all ports in a few days, it is surely and rightly checkpointed
by humans to prevent automated mayhem :)



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