On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > FreeBSD paqi.smithi.id.au 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 19 > 20:22:12 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAQI5S_2 i386 > > On 4th December, after a recent portsnap fetch/update, I ran portupgrade > -anPP to prefetch all available packages for a well overdue upgrade of > all ports on this box, most dating from 5.4-RELEASE CDs <blush> > > Apart from taking ~7 hours to fetch ~550MB for ~220 packages, and except > for a few non-packageable ports, that went fine. Then on 10th December, > after much study of UPDATING and adopting the procedures there for KDE, > I ran portupgrade -aPP on those packages, which apart from updating PHP4 > then installing PHP5 on top of it (which I'll take up later) went better > than I'd dared to dream, taking ~8 hours. Awesome work guys! > > However after then running portsnap fetch/update to pick up anything new > since the 4th, and after upgrading portupgrade, ran another portupgrade > -anPP to pick up available packages for the ~35 ports newly out of date, > intending to finish off by building any remaining ports from sources. > > I was glad I'd specified -PP .. every fetch from $subject directory > failed. Checking manually, then and again tonight, I see that indeed > only the versions of files that were (correctly) current at 4th December > are still there now. The latest file date there says 17th November. > > Is this likely a temporary glitch, or do -stable packages only get > updated to match the current ports tree after some expectable delay?
There's always a lag, of course (computers aren't yet infinitely fast ;-). It's usually only a lag of a couple of days for 6.x, longer for 5.x since it's a "legacy" branch and not our main focus of activity. However the main FTP distribution server has been offline with hardware failure for the past week or two, so I can't push out any of the subsequent updates. Hopefully this will be resolved soon (it's also holding up the 6.2 release cycle). Kris
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