Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:09:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading packages using binaries Message-ID: <20050427200916.GA38219@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200504271653.35873.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> References: <200504271653.35873.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:53:35PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > Hi >=20 > I'm having some trouble upgrading my packages; haven't done so since febr= uary.=20 > I know the "correct" way to update packages using binaries is to cvsup yo= ur=20 > portstree and run portupgrade -RPP, but I don't get far with this. >=20 > The problem as far as I can tell is, that the portstree and=20 > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/ aren't in s= ync. They're never perfectly in sync and never can be, because computers aren't infinitely fast. > portupgrade does have a fallback and will install the latest version vail= able=20 > from ../Latest/ and this is most often enough. This should in theory just= =20 > give me the latest binaries available at the FreeBSD mirrors. >=20 > But it isn't "foolproof". An example is pkgconf, the latest version on th= e=20 > mirrors is 0.15 while many ports *requires* 0.17.2. So portupgrade quits. >=20 > My question: is there any way to upgrade packages to the latest available= =20 > version on the mirrors Yes, you're using it. > and/or a way to cvsup the portstree to the version the=20 > binary packages have been built from? No, sorry. Usually the -stable packages don't get so far behind, except around release time when all the build activity goes there. I just finished a build and updated them though, so you should be able to retry once your favourite mirror has updated. Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCb/FsWry0BWjoQKURAtMhAKCqbSTVwBBPkC7XLu4WrDoHvtqCgwCdFi2R 2VPaUhHxhm4a6DUtAnfeG28= =PNc8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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