Upgrading packages using binaries

Wed Apr 27 07:53:32 PDT 2005

Hi

I'm having some trouble upgrading my packages; haven't done so since february. 
I know the "correct" way to update packages using binaries is to cvsup your 
portstree and run portupgrade -RPP, but I don't get far with this.

The problem as far as I can tell is, that the portstree and 
ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/ aren't in sync.

portupgrade does have a fallback and will install the latest version vailable 
from ../Latest/ and this is most often enough. This should in theory just 
give me the latest binaries available at the FreeBSD mirrors.

But it isn't "foolproof". An example is pkgconf, the latest version on the 
mirrors is 0.15 while many ports *requires* 0.17.2. So portupgrade quits.

My question: is there any way to upgrade packages to the latest available 
version on the mirrors and/or a way to cvsup the portstree to the version the 
binary packages have been built from?