Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

[Mark Ovens]

kstewart wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks Kent, but it didn't work. Setting it made it search in 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/All. I eventually found 
that it's PKG_SITES that needs setting (and you don't include 'All') 
after trawling through pkgtools.conf. Unfortunately it's not documented 
in the portupgrade manpage.

Anyway, I've got it all working now - thanks for the push in the right 
direction, and thanks Phil too for the input.

Regards,

Mark

> 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.
>