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FreeBSD Ports Collection Reaches 7000

Posted by timothy on from the and-growing dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The FreeBSD ports collection has just had the 7000th port committed. The original message can be read in Kris Kennaway's post to freebsd-ports."

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  1. Just in time by __past__ · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ... given there is a freeze for the ports tree scheduled friday, due to the upcoming 4.6 release.

    Imagine how many it could be if it wouldn't take so darn long until ports made by non-commiters make it in CVS. There are a lot of open "New Port:" pr's in GNATS, and I strongly doubt that they are all problematic in any way, problably nobody found the time to look at them in most cases. This is quite annoying, if you created a port and it sits there uncommited for months.

    However, congrats to all porters! Keep on the good work.

    --
    Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
  2. Is there a collection of sources packages by Krapangor · · Score: 2, Interesting
    usable with the ports system out there ?
    If you are at a slow internet connection you cannot afford to download all the sources.
    I think this is the main flaw of the ports system and the reason why *BSD is not used of stand alone desktops very often.
    Yes, I know that there are binary packages out there now.

    BTW: a search in the posts package for "bsd is dying" returns "Sorry, nothing found. You may look for other FreeBSD Search Services."
    It seems that there is still much to do for them.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
    1. Re:Is there a collection of sources packages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Yes. It's called the FreeBSD Toolkit, and can be found at the following address: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdtool?id=Z jIbzhtY&mv_pc=21. This box contains most of the source archives ("distfiles") you can use locally for compiling the Ports (put them in /usr/ports/distfiles).