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Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100
Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I=E2=80=99ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which sho=
uld =20
> try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of =20
> the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it =20
> fails and then proceed to build it from the sources.
> While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a =20
> package to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times.

Are you aware that you need to pick-up stable packages, rather than
release packages, for portupgrade -P to work properly?