Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:05:16 -0500, David Jackson wrote: The fact is, I have had problems with portupgrade as well, in fact, portupgrade would give errors as well with not being able to download packages, the entire upgrade process at that point would fail. That is the reason I am trying

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle If you want to use packages I would suggest

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread David Jackson
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do not prefer to build it all.

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:45 -0500 David Jackson wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages

Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-25 Thread David Jackson
Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message Protocol error and then Package x cannot be fetched, where x is the name of

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-25 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes: Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message Protocol error and then

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-25 Thread David Jackson
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes: Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It gets to downloaded packages.