Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-04 Thread grarpamp
I'd rather keep the subject on topic about archiving the final quarterly package builds [1] in variously accessible ways for varied lengths of time. Please pull the convo on overall ports strategy into a different subject. [1] Or the finals / checkpoints of whatever strategies are in place into

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-04 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > >>> I've asked for this but the answer is > >>> "no we don't do that.. and have no plans to". > >> What is the rationale? > > I don't know, but as the setup of your own package builder box > > is simple enough -- wouldn't that be an alternative for you ? > If the answer is always "don't

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/8/18 11:17 am, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! I've asked for this but the answer is "no we don't do that.. and have no plans to". What is the rationale? I don't know, but as the setup of your own package builder box is simple enough -- wouldn't that be an alternative for you ? If the answer is

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-03 Thread grarpamp
> And many 10s of GB which we would be forcing all the mirrors to carry > (and remember, *N archs *n OSVERSIONS). > This has been cited as a stopper in the past. There's enough slack to pull down at least one new quarter, how deep that slack goes hasn't been chimed in on but this was copied out

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-03 Thread Ronald Klop
Van: grarpamp Datum: donderdag, 2 augustus 2018 22:21 Aan: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org CC: freebsd-...@freebsd.org Onderwerp: Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds? > I've asked for this but the answer is > "no we don't do that.. and have no plans to". What

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-03 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > as the setup of your own package builder box > is simple enough -- wouldn't that be an alternative for you ? Simple and even done. Yet being local, that wouldn't cover others out there who might have found or thought of similar or additional

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-02 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > This was discussed in a long thread last June: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-June/109126.html > > Short answer: we don't have enough resources. The OP there titles and suggests opening more development branches,

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-02 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > I've asked for this but the answer is > > "no we don't do that.. and have no plans to". > > What is the rationale? I don't know, but as the setup of your own package builder box is simple enough -- wouldn't that be an alternative for you ? -- p...@freebsd.org +49 171 3101372

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-08-02 Thread grarpamp
> I've asked for this but the answer is > "no we don't do that.. and have no plans to". What is the rationale? Or is another model of pkg build, distribution, and archiving coming? It seems no more would be needed than - an update to release / handbook / mirror info noting their status as

Re: Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 22/7/18 5:59 am, grarpamp wrote: Packages are delivered via a single quarterly label here https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/ which corresponds to the latest quarterly branch label here https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/?sortby=date#dirlist However, similar to how

Archives of last quarterly package builds?

2018-07-21 Thread grarpamp
Packages are delivered via a single quarterly label here https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/ which corresponds to the latest quarterly branch label here https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/?sortby=date#dirlist However, similar to how the tags here