> > On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:45 am, Philip Payne wrote: > > > > Well, png is up to png-1.2.5_8 and if you did a recent cvsup and > > > > recreated your INDEXs, that is what you should be seeing. > > > > > > OK, portupgrade(1) _is_ looking for 1.2.5_8 but it is > trying to get it > > > from > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All > > > where the version of png is 1.2.5_2, so how to resolve > the conflict? > > > Seems to me that portupgrade(1) needs to be getting the > packages from > > > packages-4-stable/All instead? > > > > > > > Staying behind is a good way to end up with a security > > > > > > black hole :). > > > > > > Precisely. > > > > > > > A cvsup of ports-all and a portsdb -uU should be a good > way to keep > > > > your system current. > > > > > > Will that change where portupgrade(1) tries to get the > packages from? > > > > I believe the package updates will lag behind the ports > source update i.e. > > if you use portupgrade -PP and use packages only there will be the > > occasional port that does not have a package available. I'm > not sure how > > long the lag is... I guess different for different ports. > > > > I think you'll just have to accept a slight lag on when you > can update > > certain ports. > > > > If this is not the real error I'm sure someone will correct me. > > His PACKAGESITE environment variable is set to a wrong > location. I think that > he needs to set it using something like > > setenv PACKAGESITE > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All > > or his favorite mirror, as all one line. and then run > portupgrade -PPa. It > defaults to the 4.9 release packages and they never change. I > have only used > PACKAGESITE once and that was to update KDE. The sites were > so busy that my > computer would build it almost as fast as I could download it. >
Ah, OK. That makes sense. Didn't realise the package path problem. If you're using portinstall then you can set alternative package sites in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf rather than setting the PACKAGESITE environment variable. Phil. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
