From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 23:18:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B818A1065679 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE528FC12 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi12 with SMTP id 12so10812384pxi.3 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:18:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=rC/A2XT7hn3E0NzL+XKydWIVaaQpfKW6xPojNVUmhL8=; b=uYVWGSx2+2TroTl/guZnj5gnII0niOw9GQfISrQp/d/8PBdQ9ub9EFm5/fN8kTcjSw 2ojgNg8U4ws/J6QEW972o72KoD4Pf0Oi/Zf+1jXEf3liLeEAk/EO25LTnRpQOFtFS/8Z Sx4Vu+GaA2tAuq7WItp9WoVthWaNpGitt0dHM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=l8IcEuGpyQXXhRzUxBHYsElIP3Dhi+ZWdn7RHLIxSx7Kzh72ggs5E7OkSoCcvjrf6m 0Jx0Q5UiaO4t4OqCupQklJvaMo3sSUtX5Po5PTOPxdmyRF9FWgrw05P1YiCCVnAemrAg z7SvxnI7zackp374YL1RgwuoMLWbQkvp2mSj8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.118.1 with SMTP id q1mr15478018wfc.38.1262733521332; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:18:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:18:41 -0800 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:18:45 -0000 On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Freddie Cash 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