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[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> FreeBSD paqi.smithi.id.au 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #0:  Sun Nov 19
> 20:22:12 EST 2006 root at paqi.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAQI5S_2 i386
> 
> On 4th December, after a recent portsnap fetch/update, I ran portupgrade
> -anPP to prefetch all available packages for a well overdue upgrade of
> all ports on this box, most dating from 5.4-RELEASE CDs <blush>
> 
> Apart from taking ~7 hours to fetch ~550MB for ~220 packages, and except
> for a few non-packageable ports, that went fine.  Then on 10th December,
> after much study of UPDATING and adopting the procedures there for KDE,
> I ran portupgrade -aPP on those packages, which apart from updating PHP4
> then installing PHP5 on top of it (which I'll take up later) went better
> than I'd dared to dream, taking ~8 hours.  Awesome work guys!
> 
> However after then running portsnap fetch/update to pick up anything new
> since the 4th, and after upgrading portupgrade, ran another portupgrade
> -anPP to pick up available packages for the ~35 ports newly out of date,
> intending to finish off by building any remaining ports from sources.
> 
> I was glad I'd specified -PP .. every fetch from $subject directory
> failed.  Checking manually, then and again tonight, I see that indeed
> only the versions of files that were (correctly) current at 4th December
> are still there now.  The latest file date there says 17th November.
> 
> Is this likely a temporary glitch, or do -stable packages only get
> updated to match the current ports tree after some expectable delay?

There's always a lag, of course (computers aren't yet infinitely fast
;-).  It's usually only a lag of a couple of days for 6.x, longer for
5.x since it's a "legacy" branch and not our main focus of activity.

However the main FTP distribution server has been offline with
hardware failure for the past week or two, so I can't push out any of
the subsequent updates.  Hopefully this will be resolved soon (it's
also holding up the 6.2 release cycle).

Kris
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