Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Luca Presotto
+ To : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc : Attchmnt: Subject : Could not find package - using ports - Message Text - Hi everyone, I'm upgrading all the ports I have installed and the command I used is portupgrade -aP, exluding ruby and portupgrade itself. Sad news is that for every

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Glen Barber
I'm upgrading all the ports I have installed and the command I used is portupgrade -aP, exluding ruby and portupgrade itself. Sad news is that for every single package it tries to fetch it doesn't find anything, so it uses the ports, and it needs lots of time to compile everything.

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE comes out. Did

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile using

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:18 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile

R: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Luca Presotto
The reason that portupgrade -P was not using packages is that, by default it fetches packages built against the tree that's on the install disks, so there wont be any for updated ports. You can set portupgrade to fetch packages for the 7-stable development branch (you can google for how

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Luca wrote: The reason that portupgrade -P was not using packages is that, by default it fetches packages built against the tree that's on the install disks, so there wont be any for updated ports. You can set portupgrade to fetch packages for the 7-stable development branch (you can