Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:23:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: kstewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package version problem with portupgrade(1) Message-ID: <4138B6B5.1030707@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200409020849.24078.kstewart@owt.com> References: <A0A204EE2E51BC41BCDE3C1DD86D35ED02543B10@gblon1exch06.uk.mcilink.com> <200409020849.24078.kstewart@owt.com>
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kstewart wrote: > 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 > Thanks Kent, but it didn't work. Setting it made it search in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/All. I eventually found that it's PKG_SITES that needs setting (and you don't include 'All') after trawling through pkgtools.conf. Unfortunately it's not documented in the portupgrade manpage. Anyway, I've got it all working now - thanks for the push in the right direction, and thanks Phil too for the input. Regards, Mark > 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. >
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