From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 2 12:17:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1359B37B43F for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74CC43EA9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18UBmC-000DWK-0X; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:17:12 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:16:08 +0000 To: Johnson David Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: What happened to the ports? References: <200301021204.30088.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200301021204.30088.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Someone, quite probably Johnson David, once wrote: >What happened to the ports tree at www.freebsd.org/ports, and its associated >tarball? I'm not talking about cvsup, but the ports.tar.gz. It's been over >two months since it has been updated. > >Using this tarball is the only way I can update my ports tree at work, since I >am behind a firewall. Is this just a temporary thing, or has non-cvsup access >to the current ports tree been deprecated? Due to the upcoming release of 5.0 the ports tree has been frozen for a while so very little has changed, and of the changes that have happened very little will have affected you. However the freeze was lifted today and the commiters are been busy playing catch-up right now. I imagine that once the tree calms down a little the port-managers will roll a new tarball. Give it a week or so before you start to worry :-) Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message