Heads up: no more 1.4 binary package

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Sep 27 05:20:46 PDT 2006


On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:44:23PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Tue, September 26, 2006 9:05 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > since Justin announced it already, I can also make it public.
> > I won't do anymore public package builds for DragonFly 1.4.
> > I'm working on a setup which allows me to do HEAD builds as well, but
> > that will need some more time. But from 2006Q3 on, you will find at
> > least 1.6 release binaries for pkgsrc-current and updated between those
> > builds for pkgsrc-stable.
> 
> Would there be any objection to setting PKG_PATH to the appropriate
> location in each release, as part of the installation?

I would leave it out intentionally, since PKG_PATH is gone of the
few variables which get refused by pkgsrc.  The other thing we should
add when doing is an commented out BINPKG_SITE entry in /etc/mk.conf.
That allows the use of bin-install.

Joerg





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