Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

[Philip Payne]

> 
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:45 am, Philip Payne wrote:
> > > > Well, png is up to png-1.2.5_8 and if you did a recent cvsup and
> > > > recreated your INDEXs, that is what you should be seeing.
> > >
> > > OK, portupgrade(1) _is_ looking for 1.2.5_8 but it is 
> trying to get it
> > > from
> > > 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All
> > > where the version of png is 1.2.5_2, so how to resolve 
> the conflict?
> > > Seems to me that portupgrade(1) needs to be getting the 
> packages from
> > > packages-4-stable/All instead?
> > >
> > > > Staying behind is a good way to end up with a security
> > >
> > > black hole :).
> > >
> > > Precisely.
> > >
> > > > A cvsup of ports-all and a portsdb -uU should be a good 
> way to keep
> > > > your system current.
> > >
> > > Will that change where portupgrade(1) tries to get the 
> packages from?
> >
> > I believe the package updates will lag behind the ports 
> source update i.e.
> > if you use portupgrade -PP and use packages only there will be the
> > occasional port that does not have a package available. I'm 
> not sure how
> > long the lag is... I guess different for different ports.
> >
> > I think you'll just have to accept a slight lag on when you 
> can update
> > certain ports.
> >
> > If this is not the real error I'm sure someone will correct me.
> 
> His PACKAGESITE environment variable is set to a wrong 
> location. I think that 
> he needs to set it using something like
> 
> setenv PACKAGESITE 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All
> 
> or his favorite mirror, as all one line. and then run 
> portupgrade -PPa. It 
> defaults to the 4.9 release packages and they never change. I 
> have only used 
> PACKAGESITE once and that was to update KDE. The sites were 
> so busy that my 
> computer would build it almost as fast as I could download it.
> 

Ah, OK. That makes sense. Didn't realise the package path problem.

If you're using portinstall then you can set alternative package sites in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf rather than setting the PACKAGESITE environment
variable.

Phil.