Too many binary packages are missing

[Frank Shute]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:38:25AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
>
> I am updating i386 system (portupgrade -aP) and whole lot of binary 
> packages are missing.
> For example, gcc-4.5.0, qt4-corelib are examples of large packages that 
> are missing that don't require too many dependencies and are very basic.

gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they
are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or
its applications.

> 
> I know, it may be caused by failed dependencies, copyright restrictions, 
> etc. But it's hard to imagive why they are missing for these two: no 
> copyright restrictions, and almost no dependencies.
> 
> This unfortunately slows down many people.
> Is there any solution to this problem? Maybe people just forget about 
> this build server and some minor fix wil help?

It's a case of having space on the servers IIRC.

Also some require too many options to be set at build time (probably
the problem with qt). I know it's the reason why OO.o is not packaged
- too many languages & other options.

> 
> Yuri

Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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