On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:55:15PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 15:00, Gary Kline said:
> >
> This issue comes up about every six months. If you google the mailing
> list you will find extensive discussion about why binary upgrades are
> a bad idea.
Well, certainly not upgrading the "world" and kernel....
> If you want to upgrade using packages only
> use 'portupgrade -PP'. Bear in mind it takes the package build
> cluster a couple of weeks to catch up. For security reasons we
> (maintainers) don't build packages and building binaries for every
> possible configuration would place an extreme load on the build
> cluster (not to mention the space required to host them all).
I'm willing to donate one 400Mhz Kayak; just sans memory or disk.
Seriously, but I think the cluster needs much faster hardware.
At any rate, I was thinking of inbetweener-patches; so that it
would be possible to stay current between pkg-1.2.3_4 and
pkg-1.2.3_5, say. This, only for the vanilla i386 packages.
Still, given the variables of CPUTYPE and the possible/probably
diffs in -Optimization and other CFLAGS variations, it's pretty
clear that evn a vanilla patch would be overkill. With almost
17K ports, you guys have enough on your hands!
gary
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