Obsolete packages

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Lena at lena.kiev.ua wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >A new version of a port (www/firefox) was released on April 14.
> >
> ># portversion -v firefox
> >firefox-1.5.0.1,1           <  needs updating (port has 1.5.0.2,1)
> >
> >But packages still (on April 24) are of previous version:
> >
> >$ ftp ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
> >ftp> dir packages-5-stable/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11188636 Apr 01 16:29 
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >ftp> dir packages-6-stable/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11511879 Apr 02 10:21 
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >ftp> dir packages-7-current/All/firefox-1*
> >-rw-r--r--    1 110      0        11511428 Apr 03 04:40 
> >firefox-1.5.0.1_2,1.tbz
> >
> >Is something broken or is there insufficient computing power for
> >building new packages more often?
> 
> It's my understanding that packages are built "when possible".  They 
> often lag that which is in ports.  There are only so many cycles in a 
> day (per cpu and per person).  I would assume that there is some logical 
> order in which the packages are built (most used first? Though not sure 
> how that would be determined)

I continuously rebuild packages using a method that only builds
"changed" packages (new, updated to new version or with a dependency
that was changed).  This typically gives a turnaround time on i386 of
less than a day to several days for packages becoming available, but
as I said in another reply I'm not uploading them now because of the
looming release cycle.

Kris
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