From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 18:29:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 76EC016A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:29:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2035543D3F for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:29:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i83IT4kG018948; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:29:07 -0700 From: kstewart To: Mark Ovens Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:29:26 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200409020849.24078.kstewart@owt.com> <4138B6B5.1030707@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4138B6B5.1030707@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409031129.26365.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Philip Payne cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package version problem with portupgrade(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:29:32 -0000 On Friday 03 September 2004 11:23 am, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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. Great! I tried it and it didn't work but I will save this for next time :). I use it so rarely that the mechanism is usally forgotten by the next time :). Kent > > 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. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html Support the Bison at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/