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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:27:27 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
Cc:        Lena@lena.kiev.ua, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Obsolete packages
Message-ID:  <20060424222727.GA20219@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <444D1BEF.5010704@computer.org>
References:  <20060424165021.GA1367@lena.kiev> <444D1BEF.5010704@computer.org>

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Lena@lena.kiev.ua wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >A new version of a port (www/firefox) was released on April 14.
> >
> ># portversion -v firefox
> >firefox-1.5.0.1,1           <  needs updating (port has 1.5.0.2,1)
> >
> >But packages still (on April 24) are of previous version:
> >
> >$ ftp ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
> >ftp> dir packages-5-stable/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11188636 Apr 01 16:29=20
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >ftp> dir packages-6-stable/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11511879 Apr 02 10:21=20
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >ftp> dir packages-7-current/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11511428 Apr 03 04:40=20
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >
> >Is something broken or is there insufficient computing power for
> >building new packages more often?
>=20
> It's my understanding that packages are built "when possible".  They=20
> often lag that which is in ports.  There are only so many cycles in a=20
> day (per cpu and per person).  I would assume that there is some logical=
=20
> order in which the packages are built (most used first? Though not sure=
=20
> how that would be determined)

I continuously rebuild packages using a method that only builds
"changed" packages (new, updated to new version or with a dependency
that was changed).  This typically gives a turnaround time on i386 of
less than a day to several days for packages becoming available, but
as I said in another reply I'm not uploading them now because of the
looming release cycle.

Kris

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