portupgrade: the -P options rarely works

[RW]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100
Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v at mac.com> 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.

Are you aware that you need to pick-up stable packages, rather than
release packages, for portupgrade -P to work properly?