Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:22:09 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works Message-ID: <20080120002209.04e18225@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> References: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com>
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100 Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I=E2=80=99ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which sho= uld =20 > try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of =20 > the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it =20 > fails and then proceed to build it from the sources. > While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a =20 > 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?
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