Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200, Coert <lgro...@waagmeester.co.za> wrote:
First I completed the freebsd-update
Then I ran portupgrade -av
Then I ran portsnap.
It's a bit confusing to me. Why do you first update your installed
ports, then the ports database? I would thing it would make more
sense in reverse order, i. e.
1. freebsd-update
This updates your operating system in binary way.
2. portsnap
This brings your ports tree up to date
3. portupgrade -av
This updates your installed ports.
If you don't have much ports installed, or when you're just
beginning to install a system, perform steps 1 and 2 first,
then install portupgrade (or portmaster, another great tool),
and then install everything else. This way you will receive
the latest versions of the ports. If you wish to upgrade your
installed system, perform steps 1, 2 and 3 in the proper manner.
When I decided what to make PACKAGESITE I picked 8.0-RELEASE (not STABLE
or CURRENT).
As you updated your system with freebsd-update to follow the
-RELEASE-p- branch, this is valid.
Now here is my question.
After I ran portsnap fetch extract, I ran portupgrade and got quite a
fright. What does portsnap want to download? 8.0-RELEASE or STABLE?
The portsnap program does usually download the latest version of
the ports collection. Remember that ports do always get updated,
there basically is no -RELEASE, -STABLE or -CURRENT branch for the
ports as it is for the OS.
I did not mirror the ports because that would be really big, so it will
cost me a lot of time to upgrade with portupgrade.
The ports tree itself is not that big - but installed applications
can be. A portupgrade -av call would only upgrade your installed
packages, not all that exist in ports tree.
Is there a way to do this with the binary packages instead? Or am I
doing something wrong?
Yes, see the excellent documentation in "man portupgrade": There
are the -P and -PP switches (and -p might be interesting to you,
too, to store and maybe transfer upgraded packages to other
systems).
Additionally, there's pkg_add -r to install binary packages. You
can either install Latest or those refering to -RELEASE, depending
on what PACKAGESITE or PACKAGEROOT are set; refer to "man pkg_add"
for a better explaination.
Hello Polytropon,
The order of operations makes sense. I ran it that way now
I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for.
What I do see though, portupgrade is attempting to download the STABLE
packages and not RELEASE.
I have read nearly all of Chapter 24, and I looked at Chapter 4 as well.
And I have scrunged through portsnap and portupgrade's man pages, but I
can not yet find a way to force it to use RELEASE.
I apologize if this is maybe a stupid noob thing....
Should I maybe not have used portsnap, so as to keep to ports tree that
came with the release?
Is there a way to get the original release ports tree back?
Or should I maybe just be using STABLE?
Here is what I get when I run portupgrade -PPanv
---> Checking for the latest package of 'net/rsync'
---> Found a package of 'net/rsync':
/var/packages/FreeBSD/8.0-release-i386/Latest/rsync.tbz (rsync-3.0.6)
---> Fetching the package(s) for 'rsync-3.0.7' (net/rsync)
---> Fetching rsync-3.0.7
++ Will try the following sites in the order named:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org//pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/
---> Invoking a command: /usr/bin/fetch -o
'/var/tmp/portupgradeINlbeDr0/rsync-3.0.7.tbz'
'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tbz'
fetch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tbz:
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1
** Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tbz
---> Invoking a command: /usr/bin/fetch -o
'/var/tmp/portupgradeINlbeDr0/rsync-3.0.7.tgz'
'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tgz'
fetch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tgz:
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1
** Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/rsync-3.0.7.tgz
** Failed to fetch rsync-3.0.7
---> Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
! rsync-3.0.7 (fetch error)
---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
---> Fetching the latest package(s) for 'rsync' (net/rsync)
---> Fetching rsync
++ Will try the following sites in the order named:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org//pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/
---> Invoking a command: /usr/bin/fetch -o
'/var/tmp/portupgradeDlJGIGWL/rsync.tbz'
'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/rsync.tbz'
/var/tmp/portupgradeDlJGIGWL/rsync.tbz 100% of 252 kB 33 kBps
---> Downloaded as rsync.tbz
---> Identifying the package /var/tmp/portupgradeDlJGIGWL/rsync.tbz
---> Saved as /usr/ports/packages/All/rsync-3.0.6.tbz
---> Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
+ rsync@
---> Packages processed: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed
---> Found a package of 'net/rsync':
/var/packages/FreeBSD/8.0-release-i386/Latest/rsync.tbz (rsync-3.0.6)
---> Located a package version 3.0.6
(/var/packages/FreeBSD/8.0-release-i386/Latest/rsync.tbz)
** Ignoring the package, which is the same version as is installed (3.0.6)
** No package available: net/rsync
Thanks for all your time and patience,
Coert
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