Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:56:23 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade and binary packages Message-ID: <200403081856.23236.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040308215112.GB8758@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040308143529.K11003@server.gisp.dk> <20040308215112.GB8758@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Monday 08 March 2004 01:51 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Michael Sig Birkmose wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I recently tried to switch from compiling everything myself from > > ports, to use portupgrade -PP package_name. > > > > However, after having run CVSUP on my ports tree, I run into the > > problem, that the binary packages from ftp.something.freebsd.org > > are far behind the version in the portstree. > > > > After a little bit of digging, I found out that > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/ > > has much newer binary packages. > > > > However it stills is a bit behind? > > What is the solution to this problem, or is there none? I would > > really like to avoid compiling things... > > Since computers and mirror site bandwidth are still not infinitely > fast, there will always be a time lag between the packages on the ftp > site and the ports in the ports collection [1]. Unfortunately this > means that you can't have it both ways: either you can compile the > latest versions of all the ports yourself, or you can install > packages that are a bit older. > The other side is that ports follows -current and -stable. It hasn't been that long since make on something like 4.8-release wouldn't build some ports. Would such a package install on the older systems? People have had ways of building just make but that won't always work. Bison was also an example but I don't show any installed ports on my system that depend on bison-1.75_2. Of course, my pkg_info -R "$1" lookup command fails frequently. Kent Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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