From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 23:38:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FF037B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-2.hut.fi (smtp-2.hut.fi [130.233.228.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2910943F93 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhuvinen@lyta.hut.fi) Received: from lyta.hut.fi (lyta.hut.fi [130.233.228.21]) by smtp-2.hut.fi (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4Q6cJY4006663 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 09:38:19 +0300 Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:38:19 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jukka Huvinen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (smtp-2.hut.fi) X-DCC-HUTCC-Metrics: smtp-2.hut.fi 1165; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Subject: Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 06:38:22 -0000 On Mon, 26 May 2003, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Don't use sysinstall, portupgrade and pkg_fetch are smarter than sysinstall > and will fetch the latest available -stable packages from the right location > off the ftp-servers. > > Install and update the ports-collection with cvsup. Install > sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade with the option -P to update your > ports/packages (-P will fetch a package if it's at all available, otherwise > it will compile from source, -PP will only use packages and fail it none is > available). For example 'portupgrade -aPP' would update all (-a) your > installed ports and packages by trying to download packages (-P) and fail if > there is no package available for the current version of a port in the > ports-tree (-PP). For more details, see the portupgrade manpage. > > Packages for -stable are updated on a regular basis, but only ever so often. > Don't expect a package to be available in the order of days after a port has > been upgraded. Hello! I'm also confused with getting _stable_ packages. How does it actually occur? If I update the ports collection with cvsup, it becomes to "current". (tag=.) I think there is no alternative, tag=RELENG_4 does not fetch the tree. How are stable packages chosen, or does portupgrade find the latest available or something? (E.g. setting PACKAGESITE -variable to stable-4 -source site & dir.??) -- Jukka