From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 03:18:12 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 55EF1106566B for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:18:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C1A8FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9E3IAKe043114; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:18:10 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100930 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bf1783@gmail.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "b. f." , 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:18:12 -0000 On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. 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. >> >> 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? >> > Maybe some other ports have licenses that prevent the distribution of > packages, but not lang/gcc45 and devel/qt4-corelib. Where did you > instruct portupgrade and the base system package tools to look for > them? Is your ports tree up-to-date? I see, on the ftp servers: > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/lang/gcc-4.5.0.20090924.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/lang/gcc-4.5.1.20100701.tbz > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > Also: > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/devel/qt4-corelib-4.6.3.tbz > > ... > My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-stable No sure what is packages-8-stable, shouldn't it be the same? System should at least have binaries of all packages that are required to install kde4/gnome/firefox/thunderbird -- major x11 environments and programs people use. Yuri