6-stable packages on FTP servers

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 4 11:27:19 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:25:19AM -0400, Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> On 8/4/06, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >Quite simple, the -exp build is with experimental patches to the
> >infrastructure that needed extensive testing. That testing is only now
> >finishing, so any packages that were built before that could not be used
> >for anything else until the patches were in a state to be ready to be
> >committed. I might upload the 6-exp packages as 6-stable this weekend,
> >but I have to look at in which state they are in first.
> 
> Ok, thanks.  Are the non-experimental versions not being built?  Why
> is zip, for example, still at 2.31, and why are the packages available
> on the FTP servers not newer than 5 July 2006?
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/
> 
> kbibtex.tbz  	 	07/05/06  	07:00:00
> kbiff.tbz 		07/05/06 	07:00:00
> kbilliards.tbz 		07/05/06 	07:00:00
> ...and so on...
> 
I'm currently uploading packages for i386-5, I'll start a new build for
i386-6 later today, so new packages will be available later next week.
The cluster was tight up for the last few weeks with other builds.

Cheers,
-erwin

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