On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800: > >>Martin Cracauer wrote: > >>>It's time to bite the bullet. My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just > >>>can't keep up with the port building. I need OpenOffice and stuff and > >>>the party is really over at that point. I need something with binary > >>>packages. > >>> > >>>Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have > >>>prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? > >> > >>Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for > >>most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is > >>that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all > >>branches. > > > >Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable? > > > >I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE? > > > >>>What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0 > >>>and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release > >>>binary packages? > >> > >>RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_ 8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you > >>want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to > >>update the tag each time a new security branch is created. > > > >RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as > >portupgrade is concerned. > > > >RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK and I was hoping that I > >could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the > >binary packages a insert them appropriately). > > > >If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce > >portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine, > >too. > > > >Martin > Have a look at porting.openoffice.org/freebsd . > You will find something that works for you.
It depends on what you have. Say you have 8.0 i386 or even 7.2 i386. No binaries for you there then. John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"