Kris Kennaway wrote:
Giorgio Valoti wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which should
try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of the
times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it fails
and then proceed to build it from the sources.
While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a
package to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times.
We can not guarantee that a given package is available at any given
moment, except during release cycles when the tree is frozen. The
continual process of changes and updates mean that from time to time a
randomly selected package may not be buildable. However, taken as a
whole, almost all of the packages are available at any given moment. You
can check the status for yourself on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org if you
like.
Kris
It is also worth remembering that there are a number of packages
(including some popular ones) that we cannot distribute for legal
reasons, due to the restrictive licenses imposed by the authors. These
will never be available for download via portupgrade -P.
Kris
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