Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:41:09 +0800 (SGT) From: Quark <unixuser2000-fbsd@yahoo.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases Message-ID: <1370500869.74066.YahooMailNeo@web190706.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <A5C3AEC6-CC2B-4353-B250-3CFE934FF9E4@dragondata.com> References: <A5C3AEC6-CC2B-4353-B250-3CFE934FF9E4@dragondata.com>
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=0A=0A----- Original Message -----=0A> From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.c= om>=0A> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org=0A> Cc: =0A> Sent: Wednesday, 5 June = 2013 10:42 PM=0A> Subject: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for o= ld releases=0A> =0A> =0A> (cross posting this from hackers by request)=0A> = =0A> =0A> Thanks to poudriere making this easy, we're now making public our= =0A> (unofficial!) constantly being rebuilt repository of binary packages = for old =0A> FreeBSD releases and less popular architectures.=0A> =0A> See = http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages for instructions = =0A> on how to use this.=0A> =0A> How do these differ from the official pac= kages?=0A> =0A> 1) We're building packages for 9.1 all the way back to 7.2.= =0A> =0A> 2) We're constantly grabbing new versions of ports and rebuilding= as fast as =0A> the builders can go. Our goal is to rebuild the latest ver= sion (9.1 right now) =0A> in both amd64 and i386 every 24 hours, and all ot= her versions every 7 days.=0A> =0A> 3) We're leaving up old versions (in th= e All directory) of everything, so =0A> you can grab older versions if we h= ave them.=0A> =0A> 4) We're building everything twice, one by default and o= ne a special =0A> internal-use version that has X11, examples, debugging an= d a few other features =0A> shut off. If the port can't be built without th= ose features, it just gets =0A> skipped. (This may not be of use to anyone = other than us)=0A> =0A> 5) We're building packages for i386, amd64, ia64, a= nd have the hardware in =0A> house to build for PPC, ARM and sparc64 if any= one asks for it.=0A> =0A> (As of this writing, our ia64 box just started bu= ilding things, and looks like =0A> it'll take another 5+ days to finish. If= you need ia64, give it a few days.)=0A> =0A> =0A> Feel free to contact me = with any questions, or suggestions for how this might be =0A> more useful t= o you. If you could actually use this on any other release or =0A> architec= ture that isn't currently listed, please let me know. If there's =0A> anyon= e out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style packages, we = =0A> might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for our own in= ternal use =0A> so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if nobod= y is going to use =0A> this, so speak up if you want something!=0A> =0A> = =0A> -- Kevin=0A> =0A> =0A> _______________________________________________= =0A> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list=0A> http://lists.freebsd.org/ma= ilman/listinfo/freebsd-ports=0A> To unsubscribe, send any mail to =0A> "fre= ebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A>=0Athanks Kevin, this is really cool= stuff. It had be more exiting had it also been offered via pkgng=0A
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