On Sunday 19 August 2012 13:33:30 Justin Sherrill wrote: > We can do that - the caveats are that John is building pkgsrc-current, > so you have to be on pkgsrc-current to use them. We release DragonFly > with the current quarterly release of pkgsrc, so by default, people > are not going to pull from his collection of files even if they are > uploaded. > > There also can be regressions; packages that were working may break > due to changes in pkgsrc-current as updates happen, so someone moving > from a quarterly release to pkgsrc-current may find something doesn't > upgrade when previously it did just fine. John is so astonishingly > active in fixing issues that's unlikely, but it is remotely, > temporarily, possible. > > These aren't reasons against doing it; I'm mentioning it because it > added complexity to a process that isn't as streamlined as I'd like it > to be.
I suggest you go ahead. I'm currently on 2011Q4 built with errors on a binary package base of 2011Q3, and I'd rather have a consistent set of packages, even if it's somewhere between quarterlies. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.
