Set the portupgrade package site/location

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pollito

Hi,

When upgrading my ports, I am trying to get portupgrade to check for packages in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All before it tries to build the port from scratch.

The command I issue is portupgrade -arP, and it does check a couple of different locations on the FreeBSD FTP site, but I need to change it to the above URL.

If anyone could teach me how to do this that would be great! I have Googled it, and I think it has something to do with /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf but I can't make head nor tail of it. :stud

Thanks,
pollito.
 
There is no such address as .../packages-stable/... Should be .../packages-8-stable/...

If you are on -RELEASE and want packages from -STABLE change PACKAGESITE variable:
# setenv PACKAGESITE [url]ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/[/url]

If you want just use portupgrade it's better to run:
# portupgrade -aRP
 
Many thanks, that worked a treat! :D I will also use portupgrade -aRP from now on.

Thanks again,
pollito.
 
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