Just a ports related question

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:23:45PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> O Kris Kennaway ?????? ???? Jun 2, 2006 :
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:42:28PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial
> > > property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branches,
> > > but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange
> > > for packages in 
> > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/
> > > to progressively match those of
> > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable?
> > 
> > Please give us about 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines first,
> > thanks :-)
> 
> Just some notes:
> 
> 1) Whould it take 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines
> to just copy packages from
> /ports/i386/packages-6-stable
> to
> /ports/i386/packages-6.1-release
> ????????

Those packages are not built for 6.1-release, are not tested for
6.1-release and some will not run on 6.1-release.  If you want to use
the 6-stable packages anyway, you can easily do so (see the pkg_add
manpage).

> 2) Actually we used to have a sparc64 machine which we donated thru 
> FreeBSD Foundation to Maxim Henrion (mux) already ;-)

Thanks for your dontation, but mux doesn't build packages so this
didn't help me :-)

Kris
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