On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:26:41PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Thu, August 7, 2008 4:08 pm, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > - It is outdated even at the time of release, e.g. for security updates. > > Aren't security updates applied to the most recent quarterly pkgsrc > release? Assuming they are, people would at least be able to update using > downloaded binaries, which is a somewhat more realistic goal.
Yes. But if you ship the pkgsrc tree, it can't really be up-to-date. If you expect users to use binary packages, shipping a pkgsrc tree doesn't make sense. Joerg
