Hello,
I have yet another newbie-question. Somehow I don't think I use the portscollection and the portinstall tool as intended. As far as I remember I populated my /usr/ports with portsnap as explained in Chapter 4.5 of the handbook. Then I installed a lot of software using
I used -PP because I have a quite old machine an I didn't want to spend days compiling. Later (after some weeks) I updated my ports collection using
and then wanted to do a upgrade of all the installed ports with
But this didn't work. For a lot of ports it told me, that there are no binary packages available (not only for a few exotic ones. It was for about half of all ports)
I then did a
which seems to work, but it has been compiling for 2 days now....
So my questions:
1) What did I do wrong?
2) How do I fix this to be back on binary packages. I don't want the upgrade to take 3-4 days as it's doing this time...
Thanx,
b
I have yet another newbie-question. Somehow I don't think I use the portscollection and the portinstall tool as intended. As far as I remember I populated my /usr/ports with portsnap as explained in Chapter 4.5 of the handbook. Then I installed a lot of software using
Code:
portinsall -PP someport
I used -PP because I have a quite old machine an I didn't want to spend days compiling. Later (after some weeks) I updated my ports collection using
Code:
portsnap update
and then wanted to do a upgrade of all the installed ports with
Code:
portupgrade -PPa
But this didn't work. For a lot of ports it told me, that there are no binary packages available (not only for a few exotic ones. It was for about half of all ports)
I then did a
Code:
portupgrade -Pa
which seems to work, but it has been compiling for 2 days now....
So my questions:
1) What did I do wrong?
2) How do I fix this to be back on binary packages. I don't want the upgrade to take 3-4 days as it's doing this time...
Thanx,
b