Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:49:29 +0100 From: Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works Message-ID: <16143691-5D0B-4248-84BE-37FBDE40FEA5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20080120002209.04e18225@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> <20080120002209.04e18225@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 20/gen/08, at 01:22, RW wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100 > Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I=92ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which = should >> try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of >> the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it >> fails and then proceed to build it from the sources. >> While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a >> 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? Well, no. What is the way to distinguish between stable and release? -- Giorgio Valoti
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