From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 19 23:18:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96C216A418 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:18:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb5:7e66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B7613C448 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:18:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m0JNIXtS010265; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:18:34 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:18:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801200018.33454.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Giorgio Valoti Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:18:41 -0000 On Saturday 19 January 2008, Giorgio Valoti wrote: > Hi all, > I=92ve 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. > > > Thank you > -- > Giorgio Valoti This is expected, since the packages are built from the ports tree. Thus=20 binary packages are always late. -P is most useful when distributing your o= wn=20 centrally built packages. =2D Pieter de Goeje