Re: Subject: Cinnamon only available in latest, missing in quarterly

On Sep 7, 2025, at 08:40, Andrzej Kulesza <andykrk22@gmail.com> wrote:

> In section 8.2.5.1. Install Cinnamon of the FreeBSD Handbook, the
> documentation instructs users to install Cinnamon with:
> 
> # pkg install cinnamon
> 
> 
> However, it seems that the package is currently only available in the
> latest repository - it is missing in quarterly:
> https://www.freshports.org/x11/cinnamon/
> 
> 
> Also, I couldn’t find any information on portsfallout.com about build
> failures.
> 
> Does anyone know why Cinnamon is missing in quarterly? Is this
> intentional or an oversight?

Looking around in 14.2's :

https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy20/build.html?mastername=142amd64-quarterly&build=8ba517936865

indicates in Ignored ports:

281 cinnamon-control-center-5.4.6_5 sysutils/cinnamon-control-center 1 is marked as broken: error: too few arguments to function call, expected 6, have 5

and indicates in Skipped ports:

38 cinnamon-5.4.9_8 x11/cinnamon cinnamon-control-center-5.4.6_5

Looking in 13.5's :

https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy14/build.html?mastername=135amd64-quarterly&build=8ba517936865

agrees (289 bd. 281).

Note the cinnamon-control-center versions vs. what freshports lists (ignoring powerpc*):

5.4.6_5 for quarterly (above row from page)
6.4.1   for latest (freshports)

It appears that quarterly also has cinnamon 5.4.9_8 , instead of
the likes of 6.4.10_3 or 6.4.10_4 .

So, overall: quarterly is based on an old, broken version.

Freshports reports:

Maintainer: gnome@FreeBSD.org

You might send a request there for quarterly to be updated
to a non-broken version.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com