Upgrade a binary package

[Rob Hurle]

This thread has been interesting:

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, RW wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:17:42 +0000
> From: RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrade a binary package
> 
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:55, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 03:11:30 (PM) Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>   ...
>>>> I only find info on "pkg_add" and "pkg_delete" for binary packages, the
>>>> only references to updating a package give directions on how to use the
>>>> ports tree.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to update an installed package with a newer version?
>>>
>>> sysutils/portupgrade is the usual tool.  I think portmaster can do this
>>> too.
>>
>> 	portmanager lang/expect -l
>
> Portmanager cannot upgrade from binary packages - only from ports.
>
> One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that the packages for a release are
> not normally updated. From the handbook,  4.4.1 Installing a Package:
>
> "Note: pkg_add(1) will download the latest version of your application if you
> are using FreeBSD-CURRENT or FreeBSD-STABLE. If you run a -RELEASE version,
> it will grab the version of the package that was built with your release. It
> is possible to change this behavior by overriding the PACKAGESITE environment
> variable."
>
> See the manual for how to fetch 6-stable packages

But, how to do this using portupgrade?  I have:

#uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p5A

and in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf we see:

OS_PKGBRANCH="6-stable"

but when I try portupgrade, this is what happens:

++ Will try the following sites in the order named:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/

That is, portupgrade always tries the release version and, of course, 
the "stable" version is not there.  If I manually try the above ftp 
location, it is possible to navigate to .../packages-6-stable.  How 
can I make portupgrade do what it is told and get to this stable 
branch?  Do I have to cvsup the system to 6-STABLE (which I intend to 
do fairly soon anyway)?  Do I have to manually retrieve the "stable" 
packages?  The portupgrade command is:

 	portupgrade -rPn kde

(the "n" is there at the moment for testing).  Any ideas as to where 
to look would be great (the Handbook as installed on my 6.1 release is 
no help in this area).  Thanks heaps.

Cheers,

Rob Hurle
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