Binary packages for releases and portupgrade

[John Hay]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> 
> >Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800:
> >>Martin Cracauer wrote:
> >>>It's time to bite the bullet.  My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just
> >>>can't keep up with the port building.  I need OpenOffice and stuff and
> >>>the party is really over at that point.  I need something with binary
> >>>packages.
> >>>
> >>>Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have
> >>>prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade?
> >>
> >>Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for
> >>most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is
> >>that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all
> >>branches.
> >
> >Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable?
> >
> >I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE?
> >
> >>>What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0
> >>>and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release
> >>>binary packages?
> >>
> >>RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_  8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you
> >>want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to
> >>update the tag each time a new security branch is created.
> >
> >RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as
> >portupgrade is concerned.
> >
> >RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK and I was hoping that I
> >could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the
> >binary packages a insert them appropriately).
> >
> >If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce
> >portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine,
> >too.
> >
> >Martin
> Have a look at porting.openoffice.org/freebsd .
> You will find something that works for you.

It depends on what you have. Say you have 8.0 i386 or even 7.2 i386. No
binaries for you there then.

John
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John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org