From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 11:42:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F9216A4CE for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 11:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461B843D45 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 11:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i44Ifjjw012757; Tue, 4 May 2004 11:41:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:42:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040504182647.GA3584@smeg.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <20040504182647.GA3584@smeg.bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405041142.15173.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Clay Holladay Subject: Re: freebsd-stable packages on freebsd-release-4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 18:42:18 -0000 On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:26 am, Clay Holladay wrote: > I upgraded my ports tree with cvsup using "." for the release so I > would get the latest ports. pkg_add -r downloads packages from > freebsd-release-4.9 and portupgrade -aPPR fails because it tries to > download packages with version numbers matching the ports tree from > the freebsd-release-4.9 directory. Compiling from ports give up to > date software. I know that ports only supports freebsd-stable and > freebsd- current, so is this what should be happening? Or should > pkg_add -r be in synch with ports. Is it possible to use freebsd > stable packages on freebsd-4.9, or do I need to always compile from > ports? You might do a "man pkg_add" and pay attention to the environmental variable PACKAGESITE. Yours is pointing to the freebsd-4.9 packages Building all of the packages is an enormous task and some mirrors stay closer than others. I use snapshots.jp.freebsd.org for somethings but my ports were updated more recently that snapshots were. I have an AMD-2400+ that is mostly used as a test machine and will rebuild them when I think it is time. Updating the 303 ports that I have installed required just over 12 hours of cpu time. If you have a computer that is faster than 2GHz, you can probably build from ports better than you can find a mirror to download from. When they upgraded KDE to version 3.2.1, I set PACKAGESITE to point to FruitSalad, the home of kde FreeBSD, and did a package update using the -P option. The update using portupgrade -puf was only 20% slower than the system using FruitSalad. A 3GHz machine would eliminate the difference. The download speed from FruitSalad varied all of the way from 8KB/s to 40+KB/s. I don't know what I would see on a really good connection with no interference. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html