6-stable packages on FTP servers

[Florent Thoumie]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 07:04 -0400, Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could comment on the status of package
> building for 6-stable.
> 
> A look at pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ shows:
> 
> Build logs (errors and otherwise)
> Last full run on 6.x-current [i386 ([an error occurred while
> processing this directive])]
> Current run on 6.x-current [i386 (2006-07-25 05:29)]
> Last full run on 6.x-stable with experimental port patches [i386
> (2006-07-28 22:57)]
> Current run on 6.x-stable with experimental port patches [i386
> (2006-08-04 10:29)]
> 
> If I take a port like archivers/zip as an example,
> www.freshports.org/archivers/zip shows the port was upgraded to 2.32
> on 7 July 2006.
> 
> Looking at pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-latest-logs/zip-2.31.log.bz2
> I see
> 
> build started at Wed Jun 21 23:20:01 UTC 2006
> 
> which might explain why 2.31 is the newest port on the FTP servers:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/zip-2.31.tbz
> 
> If I look at the "experimental" logs, however, I see 2.32 has been building.
> 
> pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-exp-latest-logs/zip-2.32.log shows:
> 
> building zip-2.32 on gohan37.freebsd.org
> ...
> build started at Sat Jul 29 07:51:57 UTC 2006
> 
> In fact, I can find the package here:
> 
> pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-packages-latest/archivers/zip-2.32.tbz
> 
> If the port is building, why does it not appear on the FTP servers?
> This is just one concrete example, not a specific problem with one
> port.

Experimental means it's a build with infrastructural patches (usually
taken from GNATS), so it may or may not work, but in any case, those
packages are not going to the ftp servers. The packages on the ftp
servers are build from an original ports tree.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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