Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 01:27:06 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Xavier de Labouret <zezaz@chez.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable Message-ID: <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> References: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 25 May 2003 22:48, Xavier de Labouret wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch > binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me? [...] > So, i tried to upgrade from within '/stand/sysinstall' by FTP. Don't use sysinstall, portupgrade and pkg_fetch are smarter than sysinstall and will fetch the latest available -stable packages from the right location off the ftp-servers. Install and update the ports-collection with cvsup. Install sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade with the option -P to update your ports/packages (-P will fetch a package if it's at all available, otherwise it will compile from source, -PP will only use packages and fail it none is available). For example 'portupgrade -aPP' would update all (-a) your installed ports and packages by trying to download packages (-P) and fail if there is no package available for the current version of a port in the ports-tree (-PP). For more details, see the portupgrade manpage. Packages for -stable are updated on a regular basis, but only ever so often. Don't expect a package to be available in the order of days after a port has been upgraded. -- | Michael Nottebrock | KDE on FreeBSD | ,ww | | michaelnottebrock@gmx.net | --- | ,wWWCybaWW_) | | --- | http://freebsd.kde.org | free `WSheepW' | | http://tigress.com/lofi | --- | node II II | [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+0VFQXhc68WspdLARArqLAKCH0tw7V6ZA6xKDgGXg3lm10CrH/QCgpWAK pZenGOnWgXNkcA+uFs3xNKc= =JppF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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