Re: many packages not available

On 2006-09-13, Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jürgen Herz <juergen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-packages-latest/accessibility/
You can have a clue about that if you look around line 1015 in
pkgtools.rb.

And what is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ for?
Using this is mentioned in the handbook to get "the latest version of your
application".

You should not beleive everything in the handbook! If i take my favorite
example, accessibility/atk, i can see that pointyhat has atk-1.11.4_1.tbz
while the ftp server has, for a 6.1 machine, atk-1.10.3_1.tbz. So it is clear
that pointyhat has a more recent version. Suppose you upgrade your port tree
with cvsup or portsnap, and then try to upgrade your machine with portupgrade
-P. It will have hard time finding packages corresponding to the present state
of you port tree on the ftp server, while it will find them easier on
pointyhat. So you will have less to compile locally.

As I mentioned elsethread the fact that the ftp site was so far behind
was an oversight, now corrected. When I'm running the builds I upload
the pointyhat packages to the ftp site as soon as they're finished,
which usually means they are within a week of the "latest ports tree"
(for i386; other architectures lag beyhind because I don't have enough
build machines).

You should usually stick to your favourite ftp mirror. The danger
with fetching from pointyhat directly is that you may catch it in the
middle of a build (so packages are missing), or there may be a problem
with the build which causes the packages to be broken somehow, and
which will lead me to scrap the build instead of uploading it. When
you fetch directly you remove that safety net.

Kris
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