Snapshot Packages Empty - part of commit?

[IronForge]

Greetings, all - it's been awhile; and hope all is well with everyone.

I've a "Port Guard" level question for you:
Q1: I was using OBSD by means of installing snapshots, updating from time to time whenever my packages would no longer update due to library compatibilities, etc.

Noticed that we had a hard commit for 5.0 announced a few days ago; and since then, the snapshots/packages/"CPU_ARCH" folders have been emptied.

I looked around the sites a bit; but couldn't find any explanations, nor did I find a "development roadmap calendar" - like the ones found on the Linux Distros - listed on the OBSD site. (am I asking for a berating here?

Can anyone explain to me more about this phenomenon? I'm presuming dev efforts are being redirected to "clean up" the OS Snapshots and/or the 5.0 OS code for a few days. 6 weeks seems a bit too long to leave packages alone.

Thank you in advance!

[BSDfan666]

This happens around release time, just wait for package builds to start up again.

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by IronForge

Noticed that we had a hard commit for 5.0 announced a few days ago...

OpenBSD 5.0 was tagged in CVS a month ago:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=131353020800441&w=2

...and since then, the snapshots/packages/"CPU_ARCH" folders have been emptied.

Before every -release, effort is moved from providing selected snapshot packages to building all packages for the release. I suspect this is why the directories are empty.

If you cannot wait for packages to reappear, you can build from the ports tree. However, reviewing Section 15.4.1 of the FAQ is in order. Not knowing how old your installation of -current is, downloading the ports tree today may not result in a synchronized tree. If you must build ports today, install or update to a new snapshot first.

[J65nko]

Packages for i386 have arrived

      131664 Sep 15 08:41 9libs-1.0p5.tgz
      216256 Sep 15 10:57 AcePerl-1.92p0-opt.tgz
      210884 Sep 15 07:19 AcePerl-1.92p0.tgz
     7272449 Sep 15 12:30 AsteriskGuide-2.0.tgz
    11584667 Sep 15 12:30 AsteriskTFOT-2.0.tgz
      236378 Sep 15 06:20 BasiliskII-1.0p2.tgz
      333339 Sep 15 04:47 BitTorrent-4.4.0p10.tgz
      122625 Sep 15 04:47 BitTorrent-gui-4.4.0p9.tgz
       16606 Sep 15 12:38 ColorExplorer-1.8p1.tgz
      475376 Sep 15 01:52 DevIL-1.7.8p3.tgz
    15434031 Sep 15 00:32 EMBOSS-6.0.1p1.tgz
       14084 Sep 15 12:30 GAMMApage-0.5p2.tgz
      852099 Sep 13 06:18 GeoIP-1.4.7.tgz
     3814471 Sep 15 00:50 GraphicsMagick-1.3.12p1-no_x11.tgz
     4240399 Sep 13 04:15 GraphicsMagick-1.3.12p1.tgz
     8409286 Sep 13 04:24 ImageMagick-6.6.6.10p1-no_x11.tgz
     9042580 Sep 12 18:36 ImageMagick-6.6.6.10p1.tgz
     1408305 Sep 15 06:30 LPRng-3.8.21p2.tgz
     1632048 Sep 15 11:51 OGIlexicon-2.1.tgz
      556760 Sep 12 16:46 ORBit2-2.14.19p0.tgz
      622362 Sep 12 17:15 OpenEXR-1.6.1p1.tgz
     2713396 Sep 12 17:15 OpenEXR-doc-1.6.1.tgz
       61969 Sep 12 17:15 OpenEXR-tools-1.6.1p0.tgz
    19154984 Sep 14 20:55 R-2.8.1p4.tgz
    19715761 Sep 15 08:32 Ri-li-2.0.0p2.tgz
      557091 Sep 15 13:00 SHA256

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     668744 Sep 15 11:36 zope-zwiki-0.41.0p0.tgz
     5070061 Sep 15 12:40 zopebook-2.6.tgz
       17050 Sep 15 12:41 zopeedit-0.9.3p0.tgz
     2732667 Sep 15 04:28 zsh-4.3.12.tgz
     1166394 Sep 15 07:25 zsnes-1.42p0.tgz
      101752 Sep 15 10:45 zsync-0.6.2.tgz
        9080 Sep 15 12:38 ztrack-1.0.tgz
      104860 Sep 14 23:11 zziplib-0.13.60.tgz
      151388 Sep 12 23:12 zzuf-0.13p2.tgz