From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Apr 20 11:06:32 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3588FD45471 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 109DED31; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:06:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (124-168-245-150.dyn.iinet.net.au [124.168.245.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v3KB6Qos010517 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed? To: Mathieu Arnold , Torfinn Ingolfsen , FreeBSD Ports ML References: <58F61A8D.1030309@a1poweruser.com> <68ad0daa-b1f5-f3a6-f056-dcf2f0047d94@freebsd.org> <20170420060017.GG74780@home.opsec.eu> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:06:20 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:06:32 -0000 On 20/4/17 5:18 pm, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 20/04/2017 à 11:15, Mathieu Arnold a écrit : >> Le 20/04/2017 à 10:49, Torfinn Ingolfsen a écrit : >>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >>>>>> quarterly however is broken because the pkg mirors discard it all at the >>>>>> time of update. >>>>> Do they have to? >>>>> Why couldn't pkg mirrors keep say, the four latest quarterly sets >>>>> all the time? >>>> Because the URL for the latest quarterly is one stable URL. >>> Obviously this has to be changed. As I wrote: >>> "No extra work involved once the setup is configured and tested". >>> So yes, there is some work needed, but it would be a one-time job. >>> >>> If anyone has any real arguments as to why the FreeBSD project can't >>> do it this way, let's hear them. >>> HTH >> I am not exactly sure what you are asking for, to keep the previous, not >> updated, quarterly package repositories ? say, in latest-1 latest-2 >> latest-3... ? > So, that should be quarterly-1, quarterly-2..., not latest :-) 2017-Q1, 2017-Q2, 2017-Q3 etc. > >> What purpose would that serve ? I mean, they would not be updated. >> >>