From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 15: 0:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D9A37B407 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk ([194.222.241.254]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17MFOr-00081q-0W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:00:05 +0100 Received: (from jeff@localhost) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5NM0jc00424 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:00:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jeff) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:00:45 +0100 From: Jeff Penn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade with package Message-ID: <20020623230045.A345@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3D14AB05.9040302@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from noackjr@compgeek.com on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:55:54PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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