Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:53:35 +0200 From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading packages using binaries Message-ID: <200504271653.35873.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
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Hi I'm having some trouble upgrading my packages; haven't done so since february. I know the "correct" way to update packages using binaries is to cvsup your portstree and run portupgrade -RPP, but I don't get far with this. The problem as far as I can tell is, that the portstree and ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/ aren't in sync. portupgrade does have a fallback and will install the latest version vailable from ../Latest/ and this is most often enough. This should in theory just give me the latest binaries available at the FreeBSD mirrors. But it isn't "foolproof". An example is pkgconf, the latest version on the mirrors is 0.15 while many ports *requires* 0.17.2. So portupgrade quits. My question: is there any way to upgrade packages to the latest available version on the mirrors and/or a way to cvsup the portstree to the version the binary packages have been built from?
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