portupgrade: the -P options rarely works

[Kris Kennaway]

Giorgio Valoti 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 fetch the package from the freebsd site, it fails and then 
> proceed to build it from the sources.
> While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a package 
> to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times.

We can not guarantee that a given package is available at any given 
moment, except during release cycles when the tree is frozen.  The 
continual process of changes and updates mean that from time to time a 
randomly selected package may not be buildable.  However, taken as a 
whole, almost all of the packages are available at any given moment. 
You can check the status for yourself on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org if 
you like.

Kris