Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:00:04 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update a package Message-ID: <20081126170004.GB4730@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <44abbm31ii.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <002801c94fdc$c7206c00$55614400$@com> <f84c38580811260755q4bb397d1m408aa92a885ad7d1@mail.gmail.com> <002a01c94fe0$8a37c870$9ea75950$@com> <44abbm31ii.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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* Lowell Gilbert [2008-11-26 11:17:25 -0500]: >Sure. pkg_add(1) has a '-r' option for fetching remotely, and >portupgrade(1) has a '-P' option to specify using packages (it will >fetch from FreeBSD servers if possible). To expand on Lowell's answer, using portupgrade's -P option can avoid a lengthy compile. If no suitable package is available for download, portupgrade -P will fall back to compiling the port from sourcecode. To avoid this, use -PP. Very handy when dealing with big packages like koffice. :-)
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