From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 11 02:14:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C5EBB9 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3008984F for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Yj7244cM4zGQ for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:14:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:12:35 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 vs 9.1 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:14:54 -0000 --As of January 10, 2013 8:02:01 PM -0600, Scott Eberl is alleged to have said: > OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all > the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading > to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It takes > forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is to. Early > today I installed irssi which I had to do with make clean install because > just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not being able to find the > url of it. > > Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work correctly > then? --As for the rest, it is mine. It's not really because of the release; the same problem actually affects 9.0, but you don't notice it because you can still get old packages. The basic problem is that there was a security breach in the Freebsd build and distribution network. Therefore, until parts of it have been rebuilt, it cannot be trusted. So, there are no trusted servers to build packages at the moment. This was mentioned in a security advisory a while back - well before the release. Since trusted packages of old versions of ports still exist in the required locations, 9.0 can see them. There is no particular reason to believe those packages wouldn't work under 9.1, but on the other hand there is no particular reason to believe that *all* of them still work, (other than there shouldn't have been any changes that affected them) and it is known that they are out of date, so they haven't been moved to the required locations for 9.1. The Freebsd team is working on rebuilding their build and distribution network, but it will take time, and I believe getting 9.1 out may have been considered higher priority. (Mostly because it was so close to done.) Until then, building from source is secure and trusted - and is the only way to get up-to-date ports for *either* 9.0 or 9.1. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------