From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 15:51:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D37D106568B for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (mail-ew0-f21.google.com [209.85.219.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC738FC16 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so2652411ewy.19 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:51:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CKeoIdhBDdrMqH1tVz0BPcGwy0DBJOAxNXo32nBxqjc=; b=OihpdBE66SMvs7bO5vxvm4xIJr8ONEjpNAXhTWIE2ESfwXvqbZQ8h6V8HnIKpCOEbF 4zdbsiY2jauBT0G0gAQGySXpuf9S1GiBWh7Qkag59csVheCQFaxLv+AuGqrkXqde+nQ8 NDbezsA6uf3H0iN40EQQte4nMmSFL5Dtck3ys= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EIXNvq4GtURwvoGgyiRiPhFNAAtH1VZ2BI5UW+hkNPKC309KRvd8YjL0J4PhRDydFZ 3lesv5BwYBPYeC1G3T8Vrk/6S5UeTb4OrYGKSu4zD2GOWCj0XG5vM5gl7FBuMsot29sx LQounwscviCWlO91Cm4UY8C5tc+uyuC2xvGUA= Received: by 10.210.57.5 with SMTP id f5mr3818117eba.80.1229961061190; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z37sm17704686ikz.0.2008.12.22.07.50.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:51:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:50:57 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081222155057.5153b9a5@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20081222162918.47577b53.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4ad871310812220720k26e0b02kaf7a6e4a5ea5137f@mail.gmail.com> <20081222162918.47577b53.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Could not find package - using ports 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: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:51:03 -0000 On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:18 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, "Glen Barber" > wrote: > > Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using > > the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to > > compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE > > comes out. Did you read the portupgrade man page? > > That's not entirely true. The portupgrade port installs a program > called portinstall. According to its manpage, portinstall can > -a- install from ports (compile), -b- install from packages > or -c- install from packages only (where it works similar to > pkg_add). Portinstall is just an alias for portupgrade -N The reason that portupgrade -P was not using packages is that, by default it fetches packages built against the tree that's on the install disks, so there wont be any for updated ports. You can set portupgrade to fetch packages for the 7-stable development branch (you can google for how to do this). For the most part this will work, but occasionally there will be library problems.