Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:18:33 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v@mac.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works Message-ID: <200801200018.33454.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com> References: <70F64C4A-51CB-4301-B7C5-200FD8D5BC41@mac.com>
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On Saturday 19 January 2008, Giorgio Valoti wrote: > Hi all, > I=92ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which should > try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of > the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it > fails and then proceed to build it from the sources. > While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a > package to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times. > > > Thank you > -- > Giorgio Valoti This is expected, since the packages are built from the ports tree. Thus=20 binary packages are always late. -P is most useful when distributing your o= wn=20 centrally built packages. =2D Pieter de Goeje
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