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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

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