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To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
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Subject: Re: portupgrade using packages
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Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> writes:

> Thanks - how do you get all of the packages (and any dependent packages) in
> there ahead of time?
> 
> That's my problem - fetching the packages I don't have.
> 
> H
> --
> > On Monday 14 April 2003 07:41 pm, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> > > My searching thru the email archives hasn't helped.
> > >
> > > I want to run portupgrade on a freebsd-4.8-STABLE box.  portupgrade
> > > wants to find the packages using a remote directory name that has
> > > -stable in the path, and it looks like I may want this path to use
> > > -release instead.
> > >
> > > What do I need to do to effect this change?
> > >
> > 
> > All of my packages are physically stored in 
> > 
> > /usr/src/packages/All
> > 
> > and I upgrade them using portupgrade -P or -PP.
> > 
> > Kent
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kent Stewart
> > Richland, WA
> > 
> > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html

You can build them with portinstall -pR. I'm assuming you're doing this on
another machine that shares the /usr/ports/packages directory with the one
doing the install.

-- 

  Dan Pelleg