Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200 From: Coert <lgroups@waagmeester.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: portsnap and portupgrade question Message-ID: <4BFE0FFE.4060103@waagmeester.co.za>
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Hello all, Thanks for the awesome OS! I am a Linux user and I just started using FreeBSD. It is awesome, and the Handbook as well! I am following Chapter 24 of the Handbook to update my system. First I completed the freebsd-update Then I ran portupgrade -av Then I ran portsnap. When I decided what to make PACKAGESITE I picked 8.0-RELEASE (not STABLE or CURRENT). I also mirrored the entire 20GB i386 8.0-RELEASE package set. I live in South-Africa and my ADSL is slow and expensive, so having the whole collection locally 'helps' :) Now here is my question. After I ran portsnap fetch extract, I ran portupgrade and got quite a fright. What does portsnap want to download? 8.0-RELEASE or STABLE? I did not mirror the ports because that would be really big, so it will cost me a lot of time to upgrade with portupgrade. Is there a way to do this with the binary packages instead? Or am I doing something wrong? Any pointers for this n00b would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Coert
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