Too many binary packages are missing

[b. f.]

On 10/14/10, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/10, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote:
> ...
>> My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at
>> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-stable
>> No sure what is packages-8-stable, shouldn't it be the same?
>
> As far as I know, there are no packages for 8.1-STABLE on the project
> servers, although probably both the packages for 8.1-RELEASE and
> 8-STABLE will work in your case.

I should mention that some third-party servers have packages that
aren't on the project servers; for example, you can find packages for
some versions of 8.1-STABLE on:

http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com

And of course there may be other sources, too.

b.





8.1-STABLE is closer to 8.1-RELEASE
> than it is to 8-STABLE at this point (the release engineering team is
> hoping to release 8.2 around the end of the year), so if you want to
> be conservative, use the (older) packages for 8.1-RELEASE.  Of course,
> you can also build your own packages via Ports.
>
>> System should at least have binaries of all packages that are required
>> to install kde4/gnome/firefox/thunderbird -- major x11 environments and
>> programs people use.
>
> There are, at least for the supported releases, and for snapshots of
> 9-CURRENT and 6,7,8-STABLE.  Occasionally the latest version of a
> commonly-used package breaks on -STABLE, but it is usually fixed
> fairly quickly.
>
> b.
>