From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 21:10:05 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 94F2D1065680 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252EB8FC1D for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so1156176gve.39 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=heGDXDhDfk02NkSp57Nfy1s3XMDQOHd7bUurR4hz9OM=; b=Tw8xSPffi5rvggaEUzBu4qJGWahE5PY4l6xVAlA8uJeVUHiNuTSsTe1MuCV3FGBJba sdQj7hyu9NgHhlOZefz31Sk8HiFurYRnokTF9GLU4wiw9lgGEu/cy20KaU91VSAvl53V 7Jrp3+6TGyr4WTNqY0CLn9LSJ069MWynsWgck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CDmvCL9ROGHjXHRGQwqf1h2j69nFbjZY+DFbpOHlOMWmFzaC2tu8toLAejKLnWDfOf MzxKFEJoHW1W4apTw8a2CH4yRoFvQ8Xorww4TgJf1Dr7oVpjj4smGvylABs9MQcRNc/q ZjiH5Cby4ROIy69WaDrFgRHSl/gxWcvAnA+Rc= Received: by 10.86.66.11 with SMTP id o11mr94737fga.17.1221513003223; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.100? ( [195.158.85.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm18211818fgg.4.2008.09.15.14.10.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48CECF24.8090104@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:09:56 +0200 From: mcassar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: portugrade using packages 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, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:05 -0000 I don't know if you ppl consider this an issue, and what you would do if so, so here goes. Over a month ago i had posted asking a few questions about maintaining the base system and ports/packages and got some clarification and info on the different tools. (at the time i didn't know the difference between release and stable). I still had some confusion till i later realised that most of you long time user of freebsd must surely be on stable, and only after i heard mention that kde4.1 was available as packages and i could get them for the life of me (later found a related mention in the handbook - if not mistaken; latest packages are available to stable for security reasons). Anyway, this came up when trying to use portupgrade with -arPP on Release with xorg and kde installed off the install disks and after a portsnap. portupgrade would first fetch/download the latest package under release, then find it is the same version as installed, and so forth with each installed package, instead of comparing versions first. i was about to leave it unattended but stopped it after the first few assuming that was the case and was watching my internet usage. ( there were around 350 packages to update). I am not entirely sure this is the case, just assumed. i had forgotten, since i tried stable and got most of them via packages, but today it seemed to happen on a single package at least. don't know if this is something ppl would like to look into.