Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:27:42 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>, marcus@marcuscom.com (Joe Marcus Clarke), blovett@bsdguru.com (Ben Lovett), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Message-ID: <200204292327.QAA28204@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:12:05 EDT." <20020427021206.38430BB29@i8k.babbleon.org>
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"Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> wrote:
> Well, it's probably perfectly find, but the packages are built once, at
> release time, whereas the XFree 4.2 postdates the release, so it has to be
> build from that port. If you build both from ports, then they are both
> current. If you install both from packges, then they are both older (current
> as of when the release was done). But if you build X from a port and install
> the window manager as a package, then the wind up running with an older
> package over a newer X.
While this may be true of packages from a CDROM, it's not
*necessarily* true of downloaded packages. The packages seem to be
periodically rebuilt, although the times and frequency of package
rebuilds seem to be a bit unpredictable, being around every 3-5 weeks.
(I assume that, if the packages are rebuilt, they're also installed for
use by subsequent package compilations.)
The last package rebuild seems to have occurred around April 27th.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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