On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:25 +0100 Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaub...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gary Jennejohn > <gary.jennej...@freenet.de> wrote: > > The qtcreator port was created on May 7, 2009. Seems to me that 7.2R > > is older than that. Obviously, qtcreator can't exist for 7.2R if the > > port didn't exist when it was released. > > Well, ok. Seems another case of "different systems, different > philosophies" here for me. > > My idea was that I was downloading the latest STABLE release of > FreeBSD and I assumed that the ports directory always applies to the > current STABLE version, noone should use a development version for > daily use, should one. > > Besides, the ports website doesn't list at all what versions of > FreeBSD include this port as opposed to Debian, for example; I don't > want to start a flamewar though. It's not really user-friendly, is it. > > I guess the minimum for my project will be FreeBSD 8.0 then. > Here's the URI you specified: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/qtcreator.tbz ^^^^^^^ release != stable The ports tree changes very quickly. Ports binaries for releases are created from a snapshot of the ports tree at the time of the release. Anything else is basically impossible. --- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
