Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:18:41 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <b269bc571001051518k6a5fb7c8lacc23a91d35b8384@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b269bc571001051437v456ad44aled3ce73750656928@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <b269bc571001051437v456ad44aled3ce73750656928@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > Have a read through the ports man page and the pkg_add man page. Pay > attention to the PACKAGESITE environment variable. > > This variable tells pkg_add (and portupgrade, and portmaster) where to > search for binary packages. > > By default, this is set to > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-X-release/Latest/ > > where X is the version of FreeBSD installed (7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, etc). > > All you have to do is change it to use "packages-8-stable" instead of > "packages-8.0-release", and it will search for, and install, binary packages > that were built on 8-STABLE. > > Note: one should be using a release version that is as close to -STABLE as > possible. IOW, the latest release on that branch (6.4 if you want 6-stable > packages, 7.2 if you want 7-stable packages, 8.0 if you want 8-stable > packages). That minimises the number and size of changes between -release > and -stable, and will keep things running smoothly. > > Note 2: be sure to set the correct architecture as well. Change the "i386" to "amd64" if you have the 64-bit amd64/x86_64 version of FreeBSD installed. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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