On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:49:29 +0100 Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 20/gen/08, at 01:22, RW wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100 > > Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > Are you aware that you need to pick-up stable packages, rather than > > release packages, for portupgrade -P to work properly? > > Well, no. What is the way to distinguish between stable and release? Packages are built per branch, but packages for release security branches are not generally updated. So if someone is using, say, 6.2 and wants updated packages, they set the PACKAGESITE variable to fetch 6-Stable packages instead. Try googling for the correct setting. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
