Re: [ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Chris H wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the > ports > > tree. > > > > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have > heard of it > > yet. > > > > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches > are a > > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently > supported > > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as > build and > > runtime fixes. > > > > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and > published as > > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). > > > > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. > > > > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 > will be > > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). > > > > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am > UTC) and should > > hit your closest mirrors very soon. > > > > On behalf of the port management team > > Bapt > > > A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt! > > A step towards making FreeBSD a distribution, not just a base OS anymore? :-) -- Nino ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: [HEADSUP & CFT] pkg 1.0rc1 and schedule
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/07/2012 04:32, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2012-Jul-12 10:01:10 +, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> What is pkg >>> --- >>> pkg is a new package manager for FreeBSD. It is designed as a replacement >>> for >>> the pkg_* tools, and as a full featured binary package manager. >> >> A couple of specific questions that I haven't seen answered during >> this thread or in the wiki: >> - Can pkgng cope with parallel installs? What happpens if I >> simultaneously (attempt to) install conflicting packages? > > No. Parallel installs will not work -- the first to start will lock the > DB, and the second won't be able to proceed. ... Would it be possible to start an FAQ page somewhere on pkgng wiki? There were some good questions in this thread and even better answers to them. Just putting Peter's questions and Matthew's replies would be a good start for such a page. Regards, -- Nino ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: [HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out
>> On 1/30/12 4:39 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > pkgng has just reached the beta phase, and has now found its way to the >> > ports tree (disabled by default). This question is probably not related to this announcement, but I wonder if this change (pkg_* --> pkgng) will result in increased number of available binary packages in the repositories or this change brings no benefits to the package build infrastructure? In any case, good work. Regards, -- Nino ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
