Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-packages seem to be out of date. Message-ID: <199710272156.NAA01116@bubble.didi.com> In-Reply-To: <2536.877968607@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* The syncronization between myself and the ports/packages team has * gotten harder with each progressive release and I've complained to * you before about the difficulties and confusion in syncronization. I'm not sure what you are talking about here. What exactly was hard, concerning 2.2.5R? I know that there were two mails from me to you about the location of authoritative copies of distfiles and packages that got lost somewhere, and the missing lynx package. Other than that, I think the whole process went exceptionally smooth, and we could do a lot of testing (the whole package set has been rebuilt for regression testing at least 3 times) despite the relatively short beta period. * 3. We stop distributing packages and distfiles on CD, doing just the * ports collection and letting folks use the net to grab packages * or distfiles. * * The current system is no longer workable, I'm no longer willing to do * things "the old way" - it's going to be one of these 3 options for 3.0 * / 2.2.6. I am not aware of any major problems with releases, so I don't know why you have to say that. For snaps, I think the 3. above is a good solution. Although, if you ask me a few days in advance, I may be able to build a new set of packages for you, like I did once before. Also, note that the whole package building is a pretty complicated process. I am able to build it it less than 2 days now because of the parallelization and abundance of disks, but if you just try to do it by typing "make package" from the top, it will take a long time and will result in a lot of missing and incorrect packages. Satoshi
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