Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:00:45 +0100 From: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade with package Message-ID: <20020623230045.A345@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <NFBBIJDHKLKEJHKFMLBHCELJCBAA.noackjr@compgeek.com>; from noackjr@compgeek.com on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:55:54PM -0500 References: <3D14AB05.9040302@potentialtech.com> <NFBBIJDHKLKEJHKFMLBHCELJCBAA.noackjr@compgeek.com>
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:55:54PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: > To summarize, the ports tree doesn't require a tag and is for all versions. > Certain ports may require specific versions of FreeBSD, but this is port > specific and is not systemic. An example of the universal nature of the > > Packages, on the hand, are ports built for specific branches (or for > releases). If you are running 4.5-RELEASE-p4, you would not want to run a > package built for -CURRENT. It would most likely fail to work at all. Look > into setting PACKAGESITE Thanks for all the responses which have cleared up my confusion with this issue. I have realised that portupgrade was failing to find the packages because I have not congfigured pkgtools.conf. I need to work on the configuration to direct portupgrade to a suitable directory. Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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