On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:26:21PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > Thats another question - why aren't packages released simultaneously > with the ports update?
There's a circular dependency here. The ports tree is updated by checkins, which is then pushed to the package building system, which then does complete package builds -- which can take a week or more, depending. We don't have any way to tell the package system "here is what the ports tree will be a week from now"; it's simply driven by cvs checkout, and after that it's simply a matter a machine horsepower to crank them out. We have a fair amount of i386 and amd64 horsepower (the latter is a recent development); we have a grossly insufficient amount of sparc64 horsepower, and so the packages are ~3 weeks behind. mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
