Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:00 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works Message-ID: <47928564.1050602@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> References: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com>
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Giorgio Valoti 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. We can not guarantee that a given package is available at any given moment, except during release cycles when the tree is frozen. The continual process of changes and updates mean that from time to time a randomly selected package may not be buildable. However, taken as a whole, almost all of the packages are available at any given moment. You can check the status for yourself on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org if you like. Kris
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