From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 05:49:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6CF16A41F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:49:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEA743D45 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:49:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAR5n47e092875 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:49:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jAR5n4qC092874 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:49:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:49:04 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20051127054904.GA92813@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: FreeBSD pacakges? 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: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:49:07 -0000 On my Thinkpad with 5.4 I'm able to use portupgrade -PP[&c] to upgrade my ports via packages, but on my 5.3 platform I get ---> Fetching abiword-plugins-2.4.1 fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/abiword-plugins-2.4.1.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 Do we have to be this restrictive? I can see keeping the versions 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, nd so forth separate, but no reason to *not* let the majority of ports for, say, AbiWord, from being able t be installed by package instead of having to pull over the source tarball ... Hopefully somebody can shed some insights. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix