Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:27:37PM -0700, Kurt Abahar wrote: > However, I don't know how to get a hold of this "lag > time." Is it a few days, a few weeks or ... ? You can get an _idea_ of the degree of the lag via the following URL: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html The

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:07:25 +1000 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the problem is more that there's a noticable delay between a > port being updated and a matching set of packages being available. At least for me, it hardly ever is an actual problem. I mean, building ports fr

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-27 07:51:57 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would it be feasible to use CVS tags to mark the state of the ports >tree whenever a package is successfully rebuilt by the cluster and >pushed out to the FTP servers? This would generate an immense amount of CVS repo churn

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le Ven 27 jul 07 à 3:44:32 +0200, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > écrivait : >> Kurt Abahar wrote: > >>> I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of >>> time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use >>> pac

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Kurt Abahar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Side note: I'm asking because I would definitely be > willing to contribute since this would make using > ports and packages together much easier. I think the issue is one of building tens of thousands of applicati

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Ven 27 jul 07 à 3:44:32 +0200, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > Kurt Abahar wrote: > > I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of > > time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use > > packages as much as possible. After updating the ports > > tree using portsnap, p

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No such facility > exists, and I don't imagine anyone creating one any > time soon because > it would be VERY hard to accomplish for a large > number of reasons. If you don't mind, could you please elaborate on this? Side note: I'm asking because I w

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Barton
Kurt Abahar wrote: > --- Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're >> trying to >> accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just >> describe what your >> goal is. > > I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of > time to compile them

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're > trying to > accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just > describe what your > goal is. I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use pa

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Barton
Kurt Abahar wrote: > I have tried the portupgrade way, but unfortunately > the packages lag behind ports the majority of the > time. It's actually 100% of the time, and always will be. > This led me to think that keeping the ports tree > a little behind HEAD would be a better solution. > However

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Kurt Abahar wrote: > > I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree > > synchronized with that from which the latest > packages > > in packages-6-stable were built. > > > > Is there a way to accomplish this? > > Sure,

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Kurt Abahar wrote: I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Sure, you probably want something like "portupgrade -P" or "portupgrade -P

Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thank you Be a bet

Keeping ports and packages synchronized

2007-07-22 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with the latest packages in order to minimize version mismatches and to allow easy mixing between them. So far I've been using a hack that does a listing of the packages-6-stable directory on the freebsd ftp, and uses the mt