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

[Maxim Filimonov]

Kevin,

Looks like you're absolutely right. 

Moreover, my packages got updates just now. Thank you all for your time and patience.


wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che at bein.link



> On 11 Aug 2018, at 01:19, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:37 PM Nathan Owens via freebsd-ports <
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org <mailto: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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>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, August 10, 2018, 2:16 PM, Maxim V Filimonov <che at bein.link>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
> -- 
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
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