Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:38:19 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jukka Huvinen <jhuvinen@cc.hut.fi> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.50.0305260929210.382232-100000@lyta.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Don't use sysinstall, portupgrade and pkg_fetch are smarter than sysinstall > and will fetch the latest available -stable packages from the right location > off the ftp-servers. > > Install and update the ports-collection with cvsup. Install > sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade with the option -P to update your > ports/packages (-P will fetch a package if it's at all available, otherwise > it will compile from source, -PP will only use packages and fail it none is > available). For example 'portupgrade -aPP' would update all (-a) your > installed ports and packages by trying to download packages (-P) and fail if > there is no package available for the current version of a port in the > ports-tree (-PP). For more details, see the portupgrade manpage. > > Packages for -stable are updated on a regular basis, but only ever so often. > Don't expect a package to be available in the order of days after a port has > been upgraded. Hello! I'm also confused with getting _stable_ packages. How does it actually occur? If I update the ports collection with cvsup, it becomes to "current". (tag=.) I think there is no alternative, tag=RELENG_4 does not fetch the tree. How are stable packages chosen, or does portupgrade find the latest available or something? (E.g. setting PACKAGESITE -variable to stable-4 -source site & dir.??) -- Jukka
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