----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin Day <toa...@dragondata.com> > To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:42 PM > Subject: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases > > > (cross posting this from hackers by request) > > > Thanks to poudriere making this easy, we're now making public our > (unofficial!) constantly being rebuilt repository of binary packages for old > FreeBSD releases and less popular architectures. > > See http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages for > instructions > on how to use this. > > How do these differ from the official packages? > > 1) We're building packages for 9.1 all the way back to 7.2. > > 2) We're constantly grabbing new versions of ports and rebuilding as fast as > the builders can go. Our goal is to rebuild the latest version (9.1 right > now) > in both amd64 and i386 every 24 hours, and all other versions every 7 days. > > 3) We're leaving up old versions (in the All directory) of everything, so > you can grab older versions if we have them. > > 4) We're building everything twice, one by default and one a special > internal-use version that has X11, examples, debugging and a few other > features > shut off. If the port can't be built without those features, it just gets > skipped. (This may not be of use to anyone other than us) > > 5) We're building packages for i386, amd64, ia64, and have the hardware in > house to build for PPC, ARM and sparc64 if anyone asks for it. > > (As of this writing, our ia64 box just started building things, and looks > like > it'll take another 5+ days to finish. If you need ia64, give it a few days.) > > > Feel free to contact me with any questions, or suggestions for how this might > be > more useful to you. If you could actually use this on any other release or > architecture that isn't currently listed, please let me know. If there's > anyone out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style packages, > we > might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for our own internal > use > so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if nobody is going to use > this, so speak up if you want something! > > > -- Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > thanks Kevin, this is really cool stuff. It had be more exiting had it also been offered via pkgng
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