Re: ports updates
[CC'ing freebsd-questions@ again] Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? Because of the ongoing tests for the xorg 7.2 integration. Any idea whether this will make the r300 driver available through the ports tree? I'm not involved in the xorg integration and don't know which drivers will eventually be ported, however r300 doesn't show up in: grep r300 /usr/ports/x11-drivers/*/pkg-plist so my assumption is that it wont be available right away. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ports updates
Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? Because of the ongoing tests for the xorg 7.2 integration. For details see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg or the ports@ archive. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ports updates
On 5/16/07, Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? The ports tree is currently frozen for the merge of a new Xorg release. Things should return to normal shortly. -- Regards, Paul Fraser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports updates
Paul Fraser writes: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? The ports tree is currently frozen for the merge of a new Xorg release. Things should return to normal shortly. Probably not, in the statistical sense. :-) Not only will there be the X upgrade, for all that affects, but the backlog of other ports comparable to a major version change, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports updates
Le 16/05/2007 à 18:45:21+1000, Paul Fraser a écrit On 5/16/07, Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? The ports tree is currently frozen for the merge of a new Xorg release. Things should return to normal shortly. Don't known if this switch is with many pain or not but lots of thanks for those guys to do this big work. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Mer 16 mai 2007 15:45:50 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports updates
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:46:02 -0200 jxz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ports are stalled (just security upgrades) or they continue to be updated with new versions of the softwares? Ports always give you the latest software for your FreeBSD box. You need to cvsup them regularly, but that's all. After that you run the everything you'll ever want to run from ports ;) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports updates
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:46:02PM -0200, jxz wrote: I'm considering upgrading from Linux to FreeBSD in my home machine. I have some doubts concerning the ports collection: I would use the 4.8-RELEASE branch. The ports are stalled (just security upgrades) or they continue to be updated with new versions of the softwares? What are the updates policies of the ports collections on the other branches, where do I found more about it? ports do not have any special relation to any particular branch of the OS. There's just ports, which gets continually updated with maybe the occasional hiatus right before new releases when a set of packages is produced to go onto the release CDs Don't confuse ports; which is a framework of makefiles and other supporting material that makes it trivially easy to download source, compile and install any software; with packages; which are the compiled output of ports gathered together in a handy-to-install tar-ball. As complete a set of packages as possible is produced to go with each OS release, and if there's time available on the package building cluster, updated packages will be produced when possible. Given the parallel release tracks of 4.x and 5.x at the moment, there hasn't been much time to produce as many package updates as usual. The typical way of using ports is described very well in a series of onlamp articles by Dru Lavigne: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html but the canonical instructions are at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ports updates
jxz wrote: Hello! I'm considering upgrading from Linux to FreeBSD in my home machine. I have some doubts concerning the ports collection: Nice participle (gerund?) in that first sentence :-) I would use the 4.8-RELEASE branch. The ports are stalled (just security upgrades) or they continue to be updated with new versions of the softwares? What are the updates policies of the ports collections on the other branches, where do I found more about it? TIA. The ports tree is the ports tree there's no branch. It's tagged -CURRENT in the CVS system, so if you're running -STABLE, for example, you'd have to have seperate supfiles for source and ports (but it's no problem, ready to configure examples are all in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/). My advice would be to install what you want from ports, cvsup the new tree periodically (say monthly or so) and use 'portupgrade' (from the ports tree) to keep the ports up to date. Dru Lavigne has a great article on portupgrade at onlamp.com: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html I'd also advise that if you do go this route, start portupgrade within a couple of months after you move to FBSD. I waited over a year for one server, and it took a while to get that one straightened out when I finally got around to 'portupgrade' on it. :-( Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
