On Saturday 19 January 2008, 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. > > > Thank you > -- > Giorgio Valoti
This is expected, since the packages are built from the ports tree. Thus binary packages are always late. -P is most useful when distributing your own centrally built packages. - Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
