Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:09:56 +0200 From: mcassar <marshc187@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portugrade using packages Message-ID: <48CECF24.8090104@gmail.com>
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I don't know if you ppl consider this an issue, and what you would do if so, so here goes. Over a month ago i had posted asking a few questions about maintaining the base system and ports/packages and got some clarification and info on the different tools. (at the time i didn't know the difference between release and stable). I still had some confusion till i later realised that most of you long time user of freebsd must surely be on stable, and only after i heard mention that kde4.1 was available as packages and i could get them for the life of me (later found a related mention in the handbook - if not mistaken; latest packages are available to stable for security reasons). Anyway, this came up when trying to use portupgrade with -arPP on Release with xorg and kde installed off the install disks and after a portsnap. portupgrade would first fetch/download the latest package under release, then find it is the same version as installed, and so forth with each installed package, instead of comparing versions first. i was about to leave it unattended but stopped it after the first few assuming that was the case and was watching my internet usage. ( there were around 350 packages to update). I am not entirely sure this is the case, just assumed. i had forgotten, since i tried stable and got most of them via packages, but today it seemed to happen on a single package at least. don't know if this is something ppl would like to look into.
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