Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:10:59 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <20100106071059.GA46019@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001052334580.2317@pukruppa.net> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001052334580.2317@pukruppa.net>
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800: > >>Martin Cracauer wrote: > >>>It's time to bite the bullet. My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just > >>>can't keep up with the port building. I need OpenOffice and stuff and > >>>the party is really over at that point. I need something with binary > >>>packages. > >>> > >>>Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have > >>>prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? > >> > >>Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for > >>most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is > >>that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all > >>branches. > > > >Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable? > > > >I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE? > > > >>>What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0 > >>>and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release > >>>binary packages? > >> > >>RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_ 8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you > >>want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to > >>update the tag each time a new security branch is created. > > > >RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as > >portupgrade is concerned. > > > >RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK and I was hoping that I > >could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the > >binary packages a insert them appropriately). > > > >If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce > >portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine, > >too. > > > >Martin > Have a look at porting.openoffice.org/freebsd . > You will find something that works for you. It depends on what you have. Say you have 8.0 i386 or even 7.2 i386. No binaries for you there then. John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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