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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:25:19 -0400
From:      "Richard Bejtlich" <taosecurity@gmail.com>
To:        "Richard Bejtlich" <taosecurity@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org,  flz@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6-stable packages on FTP servers
Message-ID:  <120ef0530608040425n1caaf703ya787f8d3d9361aec@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060804111519.GC13326@droso.net>
References:  <120ef0530608040404x3ceecf97qe8ff6fd7ac1df94b@mail.gmail.com> <20060804111519.GC13326@droso.net>

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On 8/4/06, Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> Quite simple, the -exp build is with experimental patches to the
> infrastructure that needed extensive testing. That testing is only now
> finishing, so any packages that were built before that could not be used
> for anything else until the patches were in a state to be ready to be
> committed. I might upload the 6-exp packages as 6-stable this weekend,
> but I have to look at in which state they are in first.

Ok, thanks.  Are the non-experimental versions not being built?  Why
is zip, for example, still at 2.31, and why are the packages available
on the FTP servers not newer than 5 July 2006?

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/

kbibtex.tbz  	 	07/05/06  	07:00:00
kbiff.tbz 		07/05/06 	07:00:00
kbilliards.tbz 		07/05/06 	07:00:00
...and so on...

Thank you,

Richard



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