Re: portsnap out-of-date?

From: Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:13:00 -0400
On 2014-06-05 23:11, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 07:57:00PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> I was surprised to see “portsnap fetch” download over 6,000 patches in order to advance the April 22 snapshot to now:
>>
>>  # portsnap fetch
>> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 7 mirrors found.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from isc.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
>> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
>> Updating from Tue Apr 22 05:38:17 UTC 2014 to Fri Jun  6 01:54:39 UTC 2014.
>> Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
>> Applying metadata patches... done.
>> Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
>> Fetching 6198 patches. 
>> (6198/6198) 100.00%  done. .                                     
>> done.
>> Applying patches... 
>>
> 
> Likely due to churn in the tree, like when things like pcre are updated.
> 
> Glen
> 

There has also been a push to get more ports to support staging, so many
old ports that don't often get much love were updated

-- 
Allan Jude


Received on Fri Jun 06 2014 - 01:12:59 UTC

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