Compiled packages

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Nov 9 11:18:22 PST 2006


On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:02:07PM -0200, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> How works the procces for pre-compiled packages in tree
> directory /All and the /Latest on freebsd ftp?
> 
> Wich time a package was updated on /Latest? And time move to /All??

Latest/ is just a symlink to the version in All/ (the file is named
differently; Latest/ doesn't have the full version string and is used
by e.g. pkg_add -r).  This is just the way that 'make package' creates
the packages in /usr/ports/packages.

Kris
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