Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-02 Thread Polytropon
Allow me an addition, primarily involving your item #1, licensing restriction, extended to possible legal restrictions: Some ports, especially from the multimedia category, allow many build-time options that determine what to include in the final program, mostly used for codecs and file formats.

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: Matthew Seaman wrote: Yuri wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Missing

Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-01 Thread Yuri
I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Yuri ___

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Yuri wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Missing binary packages are due in the main to three reasons: *

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-01 Thread Yuri
Matthew Seaman wrote: Yuri wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Missing binary packages are due in the main

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-01 Thread RW
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:47:35 -0800 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Presumably it's

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing on FTP?

2009-02-16 Thread matt donovan
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: /usr/ports/UPDATING recently recommended to upgrade kde-4.1.0 to kde-4-2.0. So I deleted kde-4.1.0 only to find out that there are no binaries for both kde-4.1.0 and kde-4.2.0. So I had to build kde-4.2.0 for many hours, again, only

Why there are so many binary packages missing on FTP?

2009-02-14 Thread Yuri
/usr/ports/UPDATING recently recommended to upgrade kde-4.1.0 to kde-4-2.0. So I deleted kde-4.1.0 only to find out that there are no binaries for both kde-4.1.0 and kde-4.2.0. So I had to build kde-4.2.0 for many hours, again, only to find out that it doesn't work as well as kde-4.1.0.