From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 03:42:16 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 92E3B1065674 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EB78FC13 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so1473680ewy.13 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:42:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=jUjddgPfu2C/M+rynz9GuCwF5mjbRtYCJEbnVaQXrUU=; b=IOrFee+ojiFIU+s3yUNNsUIizBjA09EodY7yKkyoez65aHR6KPaLbA6ZZbKjprrTo/ ewOS18IBltufJIO05OfzpsMrB9sH/lHmZIROU+RcX76IRjoIgv6XX2ccXeKlyF1KLdvd Gn/6wNRhZaUq2qd3l9ZMoYyM8XHBZyhNw+NRQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=l93txNvmeDHZx2rGfPrMbTka7WFe/HGEUTWPY6zmK5mx8yrQY5ejxNPdfDEZaKkOBn cnia7rOSOTxyw2zuUZnPKDnXRPuTe65ztt/+nRHMdZxlXQTyIMwQ1IhJLx+yWDv8fPED IpM6xK5qCcOAyIvxGZb3z2bbWXgL3aIzCStSk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.21.133 with SMTP id j5mr1265854ebb.95.1287027733880; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.47.14 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:42:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> References: <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:13 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Yuri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: 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 Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:16 -0000 On 10/14/10, Yuri wrote: > On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: ... > 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? As far as I know, there are no packages for 8.1-STABLE on the project servers, although probably both the packages for 8.1-RELEASE and 8-STABLE will work in your case. 8.1-STABLE is closer to 8.1-RELEASE than it is to 8-STABLE at this point (the release engineering team is hoping to release 8.2 around the end of the year), so if you want to be conservative, use the (older) packages for 8.1-RELEASE. Of course, you can also build your own packages via Ports. > 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. There are, at least for the supported releases, and for snapshots of 9-CURRENT and 6,7,8-STABLE. Occasionally the latest version of a commonly-used package breaks on -STABLE, but it is usually fixed fairly quickly. b.