Just a ports related question

[Mark Linimon]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:14:24PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> Provided that 6.1-RELEASE was out on Mon, 08 May 2006 wouldn't make more 
> sense if packages like Python were updated?

The delay was due to the fact that we froze the ports tree at a point
in the release cycle when we thought we were fairly close, source-wise.
Events proved that freezing to have been premature.  Nevertheless, once
done, to re-freeze later on in the cycle (and thus pick up more than a
month's worth of port updates) would have added at least another week to
the release cycle.

We're trying to get this gap to be shorter but these things are hard to
predict.  See http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/qa.html for a lot more about
all this.

Finally, general ports issues should be discussed on freebsd-ports@ :-)

mcl