Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:37:00 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001052334580.2317@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org>
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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. Greetings Uli. > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany
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