Too many binary packages are missing

[Yuri]

On 10/15/2010 11:54, b. f. wrote:
>> For example I am watching the update process of one i386 system.
>> portupgrade just failed to find one more package:
>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/kdeutils-4.5.2.tgz
>>
>> Is it misconfigured, wrong path? I didn't touch this part of
>> configuration at all.
>>      
> Right now I only see:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org:21/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/kdeutils-4.5.1.tbz
>
> from 29 Sept. 2010. The port, misc/kdeutils4, was updated on 5 Oct.
> 2010, and the latest 8.x-stable i386 has not yet been placed on the
> servers.  But this is one of those cases I mentioned, where it seems
> that pointyhat has a package that the ftp servers do not. (I don't
> know why.)  So you could try:
>    


That's quite a delay. This makes it very visible to users.

> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-8-packages-latest/misc/kdeutils-4.5.2.tbz
>
> or, better yet, build your own.
>    

See, this is a problem. I only have one very slow i386 and it takes forever.

Yuri