[Sorry for delayed response; I was travelling.] On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Andrew Deason wrote:
The *BSDs have their ports, and we are using that for FreeBSD. I'm honestly not sure why we are not relying on that for binaries.
We can get somewhat faster availability of binaries by providing our own, but upstream FreeBSD is doing much better at package building than they were even a few years ago. Their package repo is also now cryptographically signed, which is a big advantage compared to the packages that we (OpenAFS) currently distribute for FreeBSD.
I don't think that there's any particularly compelling reason for us to continue to distribute our own FreeBSD packages, but am happy to continue building them as long as they can be useful (which includes the "faster availability" bit).
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