Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:33:03 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: dan@slightlystrange.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Stefan Malte Schumacher <s.schumacher@netcologne.de> Subject: Re: Portupgrade Message-ID: <200309032233.03464.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030904001538.GC70199@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <20030903235658.GA19665@drachenhorst.fantasy.net> <20030904001538.GC70199@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:15 pm, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:56:58AM +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have just run portupgrade -a for the first time. About 2 hours > > later I realized that portupgrade is not only building the port I > > built myself from /usr/ports but also the packages which I did > > install from the CD. I do not want to build Mozilla or XFree > > myself, is there a way I can exclude such large programs from being > > updated ? Are installed ports and packages stored in the same > > database ? > > portupgrade has a config file (/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf), which > offers many config options for you to tweak - including the ability > to specify ports to ignore - look for the section about HOLD_PKGS. > > Ports and packages keep their install data in the same place, yes - > /var/db/pkg. > > > For the next question I just need a pointer to the right > > documentation ; I would like to read more about using sysinstall to > > upgrade my system instead of "make world." > > Have you read man sysinstall? But bear in mind that "make > buildworld" was carefully designed to upgrade the system properly. > > > Is there some kind of "packageupgrade" which downloads and installs > > new packages for stuff I do not want to build myself ? > > The -P or -PP options to portupgrade should work, but read the > manpage for caveats. > There is also the -x option. You have to understand that if you are upgrading a library, you may need to upgrade everything that uses that library as a dependancy. For example, lets assume that XFree86-libraries is updated because they find an error in one of the header files. Every program that uses that header file should be rebuilt. I rarely update my entire system when a library is updated. You just have to be aware of the consequences that may occur if you don't do the update. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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