Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:19:39 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports Message-ID: <4B326D4B.3050701@fstaals.net> In-Reply-To: <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <b9384ad40912230906j2926aeeak196325377cd00f19@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com> <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On 12/23/09 18:39, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > > <snip> > Or set PACKAGESITE to: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ > > See pkg_add(1) for details. > This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actually need > to update your system to a more recent stable version once in a while. > Additionally take a look at the '-P' and '-PP' flags for portupgrade (And I guess the other port upgrade tools have similar options); this way it will use packages for upgrading your software instead of ports. -- - Frank
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