From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 05:47:18 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 59650106566B for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:18 +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 DA58D8FC08 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so378873ewy.13 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:47:16 -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=GVVFEd8s3aXh+6E+P5Jg/5nSjeenFAJeVeVpw0NsJ4Q=; b=oQa8dO4Xr9wUsPu+7vpSNh1Fl1/nJn8EXunyl1s8hMYTIwGzCJSA7hekUhuBvfego7 EbXEUKsydSyWR7nLyM60F80yw5DJ5tqeMTF6qZtf35k6k1vODWxG4eO9nW+XNfQXYvep 68mqXbZnVIBPkbeaK+sKbSieL5CpA+JE2SSSQ= 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=nZ3PMN62LVarcJGsLdugOq9rvyXqw7UUPp4/4PCo6ZCV18LqpZbWbz7PIlmKeD55DU 3T8l3kWTGM5YTIHewv9YumvVeps4c8kgi/X2tbivqzFQbQ5ekjEOVoE7u/MEmEkALMKN wpEJUb0IRNe5Hp8lP9wdmehtS/rSbdLc7cZdw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.14.79 with SMTP id f15mr2994327eba.58.1287380836478; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.53.70 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:47:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CB8AB15.7000805@rawbw.com> References: <20101014120034.B794D10656D8@hub.freebsd.org> <20101015012001.F2036@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4CB89FB4.4020907@rawbw.com> <4CB8AB15.7000805@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:16 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Yuri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Ian Smith , 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: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:18 -0000 On 10/15/10, Yuri wrote: > On 10/15/2010 11:54, b. f. wrote: > That's quite a delay. This makes it very visible to users. Well, yes, to some. As to whether it's an unreasonably long delay, I'm not sure, considering the amount of work and resources required. After all, we're talking about lag of less than three weeks. You can always talk to the committers doing the work, to get a better idea of the schedule, and if it can be accelerated. >> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-8-packages-latest/misc/kdeutils-4.5.2.tbz >> >> or, better yet, build your own. >> > > See, this is a problem. I only have one very slow i386 and it takes forever. Well, I have similar problems. I go to the trouble of building from source during periods of low use, after having chosen and configured my software so that I am installing as little as possible, but it still takes longer than I would like on my older i386s. You could configure pointyhat as a secondary source for new packages, and look into whether you could get access to a faster i386/amd64 machine that could be used to make packages for your slower computer. Or you could try to speed builds using devel/ccache and/or, if you can set up a cluster, devel/distcc. b.