Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases

Quark unixuser2000-fbsd at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 6 06:41:17 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com>
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:42 PM
> Subject: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases
> 
> 
> (cross posting this from hackers by request)
> 
> 
> Thanks to poudriere making this easy, we're now making public our 
> (unofficial!) constantly being rebuilt repository of binary packages for old 
> FreeBSD releases and less popular architectures.
> 
> See http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages for instructions 
> on how to use this.
> 
> How do these differ from the official packages?
> 
> 1) We're building packages for 9.1 all the way back to 7.2.
> 
> 2) We're constantly grabbing new versions of ports and rebuilding as fast as 
> the builders can go. Our goal is to rebuild the latest version (9.1 right now) 
> in both amd64 and i386 every 24 hours, and all other versions every 7 days.
> 
> 3) We're leaving up old versions (in the All directory) of everything, so 
> you can grab older versions if we have them.
> 
> 4) We're building everything twice, one by default and one a special 
> internal-use version that has X11, examples, debugging and a few other features 
> shut off. If the port can't be built without those features, it just gets 
> skipped. (This may not be of use to anyone other than us)
> 
> 5) We're building packages for i386, amd64, ia64, and have the hardware in 
> house to build for PPC, ARM and sparc64 if anyone asks for it.
> 
> (As of this writing, our ia64 box just started building things, and looks like 
> it'll take another 5+ days to finish. If you need ia64, give it a few days.)
> 
> 
> Feel free to contact me with any questions, or suggestions for how this might be 
> more useful to you. If you could actually use this on any other release or 
> architecture that isn't currently listed, please let me know. If there's 
> anyone out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style packages, we 
> might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for our own internal use 
> so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if nobody is going to use 
> this, so speak up if you want something!
> 
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
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thanks Kevin, this is really cool stuff. It had be more exiting had it also been offered via pkgng



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