Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500 From: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: "Luca Presotto" <presotto@mail.cern.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could not find package - using ports Message-ID: <4ad871310812220720k26e0b02kaf7a6e4a5ea5137f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0812221545170.10740@lxplus231.cern.ch> References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0812221545170.10740@lxplus231.cern.ch>
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> I'm upgrading all the ports I have installed and the command I > used is "portupgrade -aP", exluding ruby and portupgrade itself. > Sad news is that for every single package it tries to fetch it doesn't > find anything, so it uses the ports, and it needs lots of time to compile > everything. (gnome, X, firefox are not so fast to compile!) > Am I doing something wrong or are the packages really missing? > Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE comes out. Did you read the portupgrade man page? > I'm using freeBSD 7.0-release on a i386 architectyre and I'm trying to > update the ports after > having done portsnap fetch update, so it should be trying to install the > latest version of the ports. > If you upgraded (you never specified from what version you upgraded from), say from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RC1, you will get the latest packages by deinstalling your current packages and reinstalling using pkg_add. -- Glen Barber
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