From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 03:49:32 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 DDD9B106564A for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:49:32 +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 6EDE78FC08 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so1475622ewy.13 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:49:31 -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=yc5Tdno9OHEWfIyE1u+Y7D9y/Xq1nOcm4goLrrjzJ6w=; b=aOaZhuB5cEgrCR1XuJ2+FqoYnCPlGkgf6/A/wAwRSbaQt5JgNa73ihGP/EyFn7xy1r /AQM+vX04r8vPSgzYPHu8aECykw+pUZROkDxWEZoVTGP8RFnePWmh93lpcFd0jzhx6S/ Qbgys6pLKQjGxe/JYAqHSb3PUUqjmxfamdUL0= 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=W1FnYs4RZjE4N7ByWVuDmlalNHI2AwAKnsYTEwS4ouCh5iBV7IGf2p5szcOzYn4jCa S34y9HSRN3L5+J8XcvhQoRIRHL5AiKEUaaQB8JH7+UGDVMUXg/x4f8uDVxyXpZz84EqG N9+YMkSJjIzVR80CYjDfqKaXggFkyNGNIaTEY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.16.144 with SMTP id o16mr581552eba.64.1287028171073; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.47.14 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:49:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:49:31 +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 03:49:32 -0000 On 10/14/10, b. f. wrote: > 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. I should mention that some third-party servers have packages that aren't on the project servers; for example, you can find packages for some versions of 8.1-STABLE on: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com And of course there may be other sources, too. b. 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. >