On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:41:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:29:08AM -0500, Benjamin Collins wrote: | >> What actually happens after the above invocation is what Sebastian | >> pointed out - updatable package names are printed, but nothing is | >> actually updated. | > | > And you're running 3.9 or -current? | | 3.9-amd64 (stable). | But it was mentioned that there are no updated packages avaiable for amd64... | Yes I can update using Ports... but it`s realy not so good (compared to | pkg_add -ui). | | *my oppinion* | There are not so many updates in the STABLE-Branch so I realy don`t | understand why nobody can spend 3hrs of Compiling (a day, in the night, | even developers have to speel :)) ) STABLE Packages (just the updated | software! Not ALL Packages..). | It`s realy something I can`t understand if it deals with the great idea of | pkg_add -ui. | */my oppinion*
Consider this for a bit. What do you need to do those 3 hours of compiling (even though I think it's more work to get updated packages) ? You'll need a machine to build them on. You need the this machine to run the STABLE version you want to build the package for. OpenBSD developers support two releases, so you'd need two machines (or boot between two versions in some way or another, adding to the time it take to release updated packages). How many pkg-archs does OpenBSD support ? see ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/ : alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, m68k, m88k, mips64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, vax. That's 12 * 2 = 24 package build machines. That's also 24 * 3 = 72 hours of work (granted, some stuff can be done in parallel but I still believe it to be more than three hours of work, especially since some archs are quite a bit slower than your run of the mill quad 3GHz AMD64 box). Please remember that OpenBSD is a multi-platform OS. All these resources could be used to further -current and the -current ports tree. I find it amazing developers find time to update packages for older releases for one arch. Anyway, as can be seen in a recent post from Nikolay Sturm, they are looking at supporting another arch. If you really want that support to be there, please consider donating. See http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060619214229 for more info on this request. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
