On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > In my experience the Debian system is far more reliable than the > FreeBSD one, but such reliability will never be accessible to FreeBSD > as long as *all* ports are not available as packages.
I have also been working on the 'packages problem' from the standpoint of portsmon. The first approximation is to add the state of package uploads (using ftp4 as a reference) to each individual overview page: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=audio&portname=easytag-devel Currently, the latest successful package builds on pointyhat are not shown in the left side of the table at the bottom. I am considering adding this. You can also see the state of all the packages on all the FTP sites: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsuploadstatus.py I currently have an action item to contact the FTP site maintainers for sites that are out of sync. Also, you can see the state of the current package builds on pointyhat: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html The 'skipped' column is the union of all the 'ignore' reasons. In addition, I want to add tools that will show _why_ packages are not built, and divide it up into {legal reason/marked 'ignore'/failed/dependent on a package falling into one of the above}. The latter of those 4 is what is shown in the 'missing' column when a package build is finished. I also want to add tools to allow comparison of packages between two different build environments. Note that this code is still beta, and I am actively working on bugs. I am hoping that this work will lead to better packages on FreeBSD. mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
