Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:02:21 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using pre-built packages with portmanager Message-ID: <20060807140221.GA7988@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <200608071024.48724.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <20060805171645.GA948@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <200608071024.48724.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:16, cpghost wrote: > > > How do I get portmanager to upgrade ports, using > > 1. pre-built packages from /usr/ports/packages (ONLY), > > and only if there's no binary package there, > > 2. build from source as usual? > > > > Additional limit (preventing use of portupgrade -P) is that only > > local (/usr/ports/packages), and no remote packages should be > > used. > > Edit /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf and add > > ENV['PKG_FETCH'] = '/usr/bin/false' > > portupgrade will look for a local package, then try and fetch a package > remotely using false(1) - which will fail because that's what false(1) does - > and portupgrade will then build the port. That's a great idea for portupgrade! Thank you! It's still not clear how portmanager (instead of portupgrade) would behave, but I'll give it a try. > Jonathan Thanks again, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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