Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync
Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com writes: Thank you, Damien, for the reply. AFAIK, STABLE gets updated every 2 weeks but not every day, and it seems to be that because of the intrusion, it has not been updated for long. The versions of the ports that come with the 9.1-RELEASE are even slightly newer than those of 9-STABLE packages. I think if I don't get the revision number from which the 9-STABLE was updated last time I'll use the ports tree that comes with 9.1-RELEASE. I hope it won't cause much version incompatibilities. Um, not really. Or at least, not specific enough to be sure whether it is correct or not. The ports tree is not branched, and is intended to work with all supported branches and releases. In other words, regardless of whether you're running 9.1-RELEASE, 9-STABLE (in svn/cvs terms, RELENG_9), or 10.x (HEAD), you can (and, unless you have specific reasons otherwise, usually corporate security dictates) should use a ports tree checked out from HEAD. This is unrelated to whether packages are available for the ports on a particular branch or tag. Package availability is unusually limited at the moment, but that's because the build cluster has very limited capacity right now for a variety of reasons. That situation will improve over time, but until computers are infinitely fast, the package collection will lag somewhat behind the ports tree. Packages need to be built for a particular base system (or close enough: generally all base-system versions in the same major-number release can run the packages for any other within that same series, most notably the -STABLE version). Additionally, -STABLE base system is updated by definition every time a developer checks into the relevant branch (currently RELENG_9). For ports, as I said earlier, there is no equivalent; updates go to HEAD, period. When packages get built for a particular base system is a matter of policy on the build cluster. I don't use downloaded packages for ports updates, but I would expect that to evolve as the new build cluster does. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync
On Feb 17, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to get the ports snapshot that was used to compile the 9-STABLE packages? I think I could use subversion but then I need to know the revision number of that snapshot. What do you suggest? Thanks, Jeff Hi Jeff, I think you might be confused here. It is my understanding that there are ports for: - HEAD - x.y-RELEASE I don't think you're going to be able to get a snapshot from 9-STABLE, because -STABLE is a continuing work. What version do you consider to be 9-STABLE ? Every time there's a new commit you get a new 9-STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thank you, Damien, for the reply. AFAIK, STABLE gets updated every 2 weeks but not every day, and it seems to be that because of the intrusion, it has not been updated for long. The versions of the ports that come with the 9.1-RELEASE are even slightly newer than those of 9-STABLE packages. I think if I don't get the revision number from which the 9-STABLE was updated last time I'll use the ports tree that comes with 9.1-RELEASE. I hope it won't cause much version incompatibilities. I'm not sure where you're getting your 9-STABLE ports from, Jeff. In the SVN repository I only see release tags and HEAD: http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/ I also second Gilbert's advice about using HEAD for your ports tree, we do this here in production with over 50 boxes and have had no problems so far. If you still want to use the branch from 9.1-RELEASE, it's here: svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_1_0/ Note that, unless I'm wrong, you will not be getting *ANY* update to the ports tree then, it's frozen. This means no security updates and all, AFAICT. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync
On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to get the ports snapshot that was used to compile the 9-STABLE packages? I think I could use subversion but then I need to know the revision number of that snapshot. What do you suggest? Thanks, Jeff Hi Jeff, I think you might be confused here. It is my understanding that there are ports for: - HEAD - x.y-RELEASE I don't think you're going to be able to get a snapshot from 9-STABLE, because -STABLE is a continuing work. What version do you consider to be 9-STABLE ? Every time there's a new commit you get a new 9-STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync
On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to get the ports snapshot that was used to compile the 9-STABLE packages? I think I could use subversion but then I need to know the revision number of that snapshot. What do you suggest? Thanks, Jeff Hi Jeff, I think you might be confused here. It is my understanding that there are ports for: - HEAD - x.y-RELEASE I don't think you're going to be able to get a snapshot from 9-STABLE, because -STABLE is a continuing work. What version do you consider to be 9-STABLE ? Every time there's a new commit you get a new 9-STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thank you, Damien, for the reply. AFAIK, STABLE gets updated every 2 weeks but not every day, and it seems to be that because of the intrusion, it has not been updated for long. The versions of the ports that come with the 9.1-RELEASE are even slightly newer than those of 9-STABLE packages. I think if I don't get the revision number from which the 9-STABLE was updated last time I'll use the ports tree that comes with 9.1-RELEASE. I hope it won't cause much version incompatibilities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Ports Packages [Stable] in sync
Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to get the ports snapshot that was used to compile the 9-STABLE packages? I think I could use subversion but then I need to know the revision number of that snapshot. What do you suggest? Thanks, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
