Packages don't seem to update for around a week right now

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:37 PM Nathan Owens via freebsd-ports <
freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I haven’t got any lately. I think I heard on BSDNow that builds are done
> on certain days for different ARCHs
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> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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> On Friday, August 10, 2018, 2:16 PM, Maxim V Filimonov <che at bein.link>
> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a bunch of 11.2 machines set up to have the latest packages. The
> problem is, the latest pkg branch hasn't been updated since Aug 1. What's
> the matter with that? Is it just me, or something happened/is happening?
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> wbr, Maxim V Filimonov
> che at bein.link
>

First, I don't believe that they are doing scheduled update any longer,
just starting a new one when the old one is completed. This means that the
time between updates is highly variable.Ones with BIG builds like chromium,
libreoffice, etc. can really slow things down. Still, this is a LONG time.

I have seen no update since the new xorgserver port resulted in the removal
of many, many small X ports that are now consolidated into xorgserver. This
also meant the rebuild a a LARGE number of ports that depend on the removed
ports. I had to build over a hundred ports after this on the system where I
build all ports as opposed to using packages. I'm suspicious that this lead
to some problem with the package building system that is preventing the
completion of an update.
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