From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 19:20:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521AF106566B for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@fstaals.net) Received: from edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl (edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl [88.159.1.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4998FC1A for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FStaals.net (unknown [88.159.208.104]) by edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B951B56CF for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:20:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from FStaals.net (localhost.FStaals.LAN [127.0.0.1]) by filter.fstaals.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8162C98141 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:20:45 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on FStaals.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from Rena.FStaals.LAN (localhost.FStaals.LAN [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: frank) by FStaals.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7664398140 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:20:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B326D4B.3050701@fstaals.net> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:19:39 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091222 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com> <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:48 -0000 On 12/23/09 18:39, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > > > 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