Frequency of FreeBSD package builds

Jungle Boogie jungleboogie0 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 19:54:40 UTC 2014


Dear Mathieu,
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From: Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org>
Sent:  Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:28:24 +0100
To: Juan Ramón Molina Menor <listjm at club-internet.fr>, 
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, freebsd-pkg at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Frequency of FreeBSD package builds
 >
>> +--On 7 décembre 2014 11:15:35 +0100 Juan Ramón Molina Menor
>> <listjm at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>> | Hi!
>> |
>> | Now that the new_xorg and ssp repositories are not being updated any
>> | more, what is the reason for the 'beefy' machines to build ports only
>> | once a week? Can we expect the frequency of package upgrades to be higher
>> | soon?
>
> Right now, it does take 3 to 4 days to build the packages each week, so
> it's a bit hard to make it more often than once a week.  We have plans for
> the future, with more building machines, it will be announced when it
> happens.
>

Oh, very nice to hear that it's a considered possibility that package building 
will happen more frequently.

Any word on if the new build environment can prioritize vulnerable 
ports/packages over those without vulnerabilities?

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