On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14/01/2013 13:10, Andrei Brezan wrote: > > I thing that it's good to wait for ports to compile and to be able to > > chose your configure options for the packages you install. It's good to > > know what options you need and what options you don't and why, that's > > one of the reasons why i'm using FreeBSD. I feel that the goal for pkgng > > is that you can install your locally built binary packages in a > > tinderbox on all your infrastructure so you don't have to compile every > > port on every server. IIRC it was considered too cumbersome to compile > > all the ports tree for all the architectures supported and provide the > > so called official binary repositories. > > No, that's not *the* goal for pkgng. > > The goal is to provide a state-of-the-art binary package management > system for FreeBSD (and anyone else who would like to use it). > > For many users this will entail downloading pre-compiled packages from > FreeBSD official repositories. But it will be possible for third > parties to set up their own repositories, in the same way that eg. the > Postgresql project has their own Yum repositories for RH-alikes. It > will also be possible for people to compile their own packages either > for direct installation, or to create their own private repositories to > serve their own networks with their custom configured packages. > > And, ideally, people will be able to use a *mix* of the above as best > suits their needs. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Hi Matthew, The point of my question was exactly if it was possible to elaborate on the "pre-compiled packages from FreeBSD official repositories" part. Would it be possible to have a (security-wise) up-to-date pre-compiled packages in the official repositories? Note, I don't expect an unreasonable effort here - I understand there will always be delays between upstream fix --> ports fix --> up-to-date package and it is acceptable for the binary package to lag a few days behind the port (depending on the availability of package building cluster or maintainer upload). Regards, -- Nino _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"