Any ETA on when packages are coming back?

GreenMeanie said:
I rather use 9.1 not 9.0 packages.
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9-STABLE packages aren't 9.0.

Don't use the -RELEASE packages, at all. They are built when the release comes out and they are never updated. The 9-STABLE packages however are built on a regular basis from a current ports tree. Or at least, that's what's supposed to happen.
 
There are no 9.1 packages in any sense (except the now totally unusable packages that were created when 9.1 was released but they will be never updated). All the packages are built on 9.0-RELEASE (as far as I know) but the repository is still called packages-9-stable to signify that it's the latest not so experimental repository of packages for all versions 9.X of FreeBSD.
 
Well if that is the way it is why when I do a fresh install they don't add 9-STABLE in the list instead of leaving it broken?
 
You'll have to ask the release engineering team about that. The only rationale I can think of is that the packages on the install disk offer a last ditch solution if no other ways to install packages are available because for example there's no internet connection.

The default should be the stable packages, I agree about that.
 
Usually there is coordination between the release engineering teams and the port maintainers. When a release is anticipated, a code freeze usually ensues and the bugs in the existing code base are addressed. OpenBSD just completed a ports code freeze which took about 5 weeks. I may not know where to look but I have not seen anything about a code freeze for 9.1 ports. It would be nice to get some feed back as to the problems, beyond the security breach last year, with getting the build servers back up and what kind of time line they anticipate. I waited about a week after a fresh 9.1 install for binary packages, gave up and encountered alot of buggy port builds.
 
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