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Julian Fagir | 29 Oct 2011 20:30
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'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

Hi,

pkgsrc/guide/files/platforms.xml contains the following phrase:

  FreeBSD 4.7 and 5.0 have been tested and are supported, other versions
  may work.

I think that information is fairly outdated, and I had despite one problem
that is already reported in a PR no problems using pkgsrc on FreeBSD 8.2 in a
jail (mainly for Latex, no X packages).

So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is it
possible to update that information?

Regards, Julian

PS: CC'ed to netbsd-docs, don't know where this issue really belongs.
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Thomas Klausner | 30 Oct 2011 23:12
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Re: 'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote:
> pkgsrc/guide/files/platforms.xml contains the following phrase:
> 
>   FreeBSD 4.7 and 5.0 have been tested and are supported, other versions
>   may work.
> 
> I think that information is fairly outdated, and I had despite one problem
> that is already reported in a PR no problems using pkgsrc on FreeBSD 8.2 in a
> jail (mainly for Latex, no X packages).
> 
> So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is it
> possible to update that information?

I think it means that's the last time someone spent some serious time
building packages for this system :)
How many packages did you build?

I think for updating the "supported" version number, we should have
tested some packages like firefox or so...
 Thomas
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Julian Fagir | 30 Oct 2011 23:47
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Re: 'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

Hi,

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:12:03 +0100 Thomas Klausner <wiz <at> NetBSD.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote:
> > pkgsrc/guide/files/platforms.xml contains the following phrase:
> > 
> >   FreeBSD 4.7 and 5.0 have been tested and are supported, other versions
> >   may work.
> > 
> > I think that information is fairly outdated, and I had despite one problem
> > that is already reported in a PR no problems using pkgsrc on FreeBSD 8.2
> > in a jail (mainly for Latex, no X packages).
> > 
> > So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is it
> > possible to update that information?
> 
> I think it means that's the last time someone spent some serious time
> building packages for this system :)
> How many packages did you build?
rosa# /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_info | wc
      79     534    4784
I can provide a detailed listing if you want, but explicitly installed were
only three: tex-pdftools, tex-latex and texlive-tetex, the rest are
dependencies.

> I think for updating the "supported" version number, we should have
> tested some packages like firefox or so...
Unfortunately, I have no FreeBSD system available to build X packages -
there's just not enough space and it's headless, anyway.
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Aleksey Cheusov | 5 Nov 2011 08:59
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Re: 'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

 >> So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is it
 >> possible to update that information?

> I think it means that's the last time someone spent some serious time
> building packages for this system :)
> How many packages did you build?

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2011/05/15/msg008145.html

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Julian Djamil Fagir | 25 Nov 2011 03:07
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Re: 'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

Hi,

>  >> So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is
>  >> it possible to update that information?
> 
> > I think it means that's the last time someone spent some serious time
> > building packages for this system :)
> > How many packages did you build?
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2011/05/15/msg008145.html
so is that enough for being stated as 'supported'?
The first thing I can find on this list is
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2005/03/28/msg001134.html
which isn't really that much better than the current one.

Regards, Julian
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Aleksey Cheusov | 25 Nov 2011 22:53
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Re: 'Being supported' in pkgsrc means...?

> Hi,

 >>  >> So: What are the specifications for being 'tested and supported'? Or is
 >>  >> it possible to update that information?
 >> 
 >> > I think it means that's the last time someone spent some serious time
 >> > building packages for this system :)
 >> > How many packages did you build?
 >> 
 >> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2011/05/15/msg008145.html
> so is that enough for being stated as 'supported'?

Well, personally, I think no, but almost 7000 packages is better than
nothing. RHEL provides about 2500 packages or so, SLES -- ~3500 packages
in their repo.

> The first thing I can find on this list is
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2005/03/28/msg001134.html
> which isn't really that much better than the current one.

I'm not interested in FreeBSD actually, I ran that bulk build just for
fun.  I've not seen any bulk build for FreeBSD for years, so it was just
interesting for me to see how good support for FreeBSD is. If you have a
hardware that runs FreeBSD welcome to pkgsrc-bulk <at>  ;-) At least I'll fix
my own packages and packages I'm interested in.

> Regards, Julian

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