Re: portupgrade: the -P options rarely works

2008-01-20 Thread Giorgio Valoti
On 20/gen/08, at 01:22, RW wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100 Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I’ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which should try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of the times it tries to fet

portupgrade: the -P options rarely works

2008-01-19 Thread Giorgio Valoti
time that a pre-compiled version of a package to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times. Thank you -- Giorgio Valoti ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Upgrading the system: via sources or freebsd-update?

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgio Valoti
tml> and it works fine, but I’m curious about the possible advantages of freebsd-update, in particular the rollback feature. Is freebsd-update a better way to keep your system up to date? Should I stick with the source approach? Thank you in advance -- Giorgio