Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

[kstewart]

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.

Kent

>
> Thanks,
> Phil.
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