On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:18 +0100 Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, "Glen Barber" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using > > the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to > > compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE > > comes out. Did you read the portupgrade man page? > > That's not entirely true. The portupgrade port installs a program > called portinstall. According to its manpage, portinstall can > -a- install from ports (compile), -b- install from packages > or -c- install from packages only (where it works similar to > pkg_add). Portinstall is just an alias for portupgrade -N The reason that portupgrade -P was not using packages is that, by default it fetches packages built against the tree that's on the install disks, so there wont be any for updated ports. You can set portupgrade to fetch packages for the 7-stable development branch (you can google for how to do this). For the most part this will work, but occasionally there will be library problems. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
