packages for alpha 4-stable

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Aug 19 13:58:41 PDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:07:35PM +0100, G.W.Roberts wrote:
> I'd appreciate some general organisational information about how the package
> files are generated.  My query is prompted by trying to obtain package files
> for alpha from packages-4-stable (in particular kde-3.1.3 because of the
> security fix).
> 
> I look on three sites:
>  (1) ftp.freebsd.org/ports/{alpha,i386}
>  (2) http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/{alpha,i386}-packages-4-{full,latest}
>  (3) http://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.1.3
> 
> The package files are available for both i386/4-stable and i386/5-current
> and for alpha/5-current, but I cannot find any for alpha/4-stable.
> I could find no log or error information on bento regarding kde-3.1.3 for
> alpha/4-stable.  Is this to be expected or has there been an oversight or
> have I missed something?  Or is the compilation still continuing somewhere?
> Do I just wait or should I email someone?
> Similar situations have occurred in the past.

The alpha build cluster is fairly slow, so it takes a while to upload
new packages.  I also don't do it as frequently as i386 to avoid
mirror churn, because alpha is a less popular target.

The packages should be uploaded in the next day or two.

Kris
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