Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:55:26 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> Cc: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal@zone3000.net> Subject: Re: upgrade 6.2 to xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <20070608195526.GC18546@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <4669AD5D.4080501@seclark.us> References: <20070608182421.CBAF545042@ptavv.es.net> <4669A126.3010703@seclark.us> <20070608191510.GA21402@zone3000.net> <4669AD5D.4080501@seclark.us>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:26:21PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > Thats another question - why aren't packages released simultaneously > with the ports update? There's a circular dependency here. The ports tree is updated by checkins, which is then pushed to the package building system, which then does complete package builds -- which can take a week or more, depending. We don't have any way to tell the package system "here is what the ports tree will be a week from now"; it's simply driven by cvs checkout, and after that it's simply a matter a machine horsepower to crank them out. We have a fair amount of i386 and amd64 horsepower (the latter is a recent development); we have a grossly insufficient amount of sparc64 horsepower, and so the packages are ~3 weeks behind. mcl
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