hmm, on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:40:23PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber said that > frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote: > > > for the last week or so, snapshot packages > > have "strange" dates alternating with a one day difference: > > > ftp://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ > > I now use "scp -p" instead of plain "scp" to upload the packages. > This gives you an idea when the build was actually started (timestamp > of the oldest package) as opposed to when I started the upload. It > doesn't really matter either way.
ah, right. (my) problem with this is, that the upload dates were the only indication basically if a mirror was finished copying all the files.. (as unfinished mirrors were another source of confusing update errors) > > this is causing all kinds of strange dependency errors > > when i try to pkg_add -u. > > No. my bad then. but i am running an oct 6 snapshot, and after saying pkg_add -ui i get a lot of "Can't install <pkg> because of libraries" "bad major". (for example: aalib, cairo, pango, dbus, ...) but noone else is reporting this, so apparently i am off the planet again :-/ -f -- fish and guests smell in three days.
