From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 17:06:08 2009 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 ACC391065692 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arthurbarlow@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B44A8FC13 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so7026585yxe.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:06:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=NFEXpTF+mJ2TTgOZ3CUPLl99mcPeGdwrtbVW+O5NTOg=; b=Vg9oAnIJr/CdOmBmgwllWJLQ/BIMlKoeTjt8Y2pH0M8np1CNaYZzIi4CIxgWj7ulaO mHvUW5dkxEBc56/HGdF0uGXK3XzO8hOy9thOovpWNyvIYVxlivRx0eJD1IDM/bVCGsQT noFAnx/76NXqYUOj4VW7bJOr2tu2RZjflo4do= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=EUKz/05p59/Pct97jwLGXMsze8oTj76+WZoKTvLytdrEcpr0tIYP2FjGpWBH7sqWwc te5mwGQTmoh4RmWvPEWxTCzS7LE/niU5yZ5iVpPL/VHiiJdqTlvHu24a7eWUbJ8JhPFU YnZtRpnRdioj0BDsI8NYAn4BNKUbHEM+CQ6Ls= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.164.38 with SMTP id r38mr4943000ago.108.1261587967676; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:06:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:06:07 -0800 Message-ID: From: Arthur Barlow To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Packages vs Ports 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: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:08 -0000 I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile Firefox it would take over 8 hours. So I figured that I would just delete it and download the new compiled version in a package. But, the package is still not updated yet, and it's been over a week. How long does it usually take for packages to catch up to ports? P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G harddrive.