Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 16:24 +0400 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Chris: > > > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello list, > > > >> > > > >> I have installed via pkg_add -r various packages for my 6.2-RELEASE. I > > > >> have recognized that on this way I will not get always the newest > > > >> package. > > > > > > > > You only get the packages compiled during the release > > > > process. Newer packages are only built for 6-stable and > > > > 7-current. The hard truth is that we don't have enough > > > > human/hardware resources to keep 6.2 packages up-to-date. > > > > > > While the above may indeed be true - if you really feel the need to have > > > the latest and greatest - that's 1/2 of what the ports and the upgrade > > > tools that are given to you to are for. > > > > > > These same tools do allow you to create packages for your own needs. > > > > The problem I pointed to is, that at the RELEASE_6_2 two packages of > > firefox and openoffice.org exists and via pkg_add -r I receive the older > > package of them both, because the links in .../Latest/ are pointing to > > the older packages, but the newer packages are available for RELEASE_6_2 > > (I don't mean RELENG_6)! > > Several versions of OOo are available from ports at the > same time. Only one of them has a link in latest. The > others have NO_LATEST_LINK set in their makefiles. You > can contact OOo maintainers (maho primarily) and ask > them to make newer versions available in latest. > > Sorry for the inconvenience.
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