Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:03:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0808011352450.963-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080801110614.GA17503@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > > > On Fri, August 1, 2008 00:06, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > > > > > > Having us testing will help the port maintainers a lot. > > > > > > Whilst I would support testing - I personally have fairly limited time to > > build and test now - and quite a lot of sysadmins I know are in the same > > boat. > > > > If there are enough people to do this - then it might just work. > > > > The we must do - if this is going to go ahead, - is to make reasonable > > decisions about what ports are the "most wanted" - say apache22 and mysql > > for example - and not "care" about something like "joe" (I just use these > > as examples - after all one can use a different editor - but a different > > webserver or DB is another matter) > > this sounds like a good idea - a list of most wanted ports. > However, even 1 or 2 big ports might require lots of dependencies. > For example I've 229 ports at present, of which only 20 or so > are top level, like ImageMagick, xpdf, teTeX, some X clients. I am also planing to upload the ports I have built during my 6.3-Release testing on my alphas. My plans are to upload to ftp.ro.freebsd.org (the server I manage) but I do not know in wich directory. Maybe packages-6.3-release-local or so ?! Wilko would this be ok? What about smoething similar to this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sparc64/Volunteers Best regards, Gheorghe Ardelean.
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