binary update problem with portupgrade

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 14. March 2005 11:27, Matej Ornest wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my FreeBSD-5.3-Release installation to the
> latest version with portupgrade, but I don't want to compile all those
> megamonsters like KDE, so I'd like to use packages for upgrade. But
> portupgrade cannot find appropriate packages for upgrade. It looks for
> them on
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/
> which is wrong...

Run portupgrade like this:

env 
PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.<mirror>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest 
portupgrade -Pa

And replace <mirror> with an appropriate country code (like cz).

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