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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:19:39 +0100
From:      Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packages vs Ports
Message-ID:  <4B326D4B.3050701@fstaals.net>
In-Reply-To: <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On 12/23/09 18:39, Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote:
>    
> <snip>
> Or set PACKAGESITE to:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/
>
> See pkg_add(1) for details.
> This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actually need
> to update your system to a more recent stable version once in a while.
>    

Additionally take a look at the '-P' and '-PP' flags for portupgrade 
(And I guess the other port upgrade tools have similar options); this 
way it will use packages for upgrading your software instead of ports.


-- 

- Frank



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