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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for 
 large upgrade?
From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@1command.com>
To: "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, matthias.andree@gmx.de,
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> Warren Block wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Chris H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay, look up the last time you installed or upgraded a port:
>>>> % ls -ltr /var/db/pkg
>>>>
>>>> The last one is the most recently modified. Update your ports tree,
>>>> follow all the steps that apply to your system since that date.
>>
>> That should say "all the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING that apply to your
>> system since that date."
>
> There is a nice command that helps you to list only relevant entries
> from UPDATING (entries from UPDATING for already installed ports)
>
> pkg_updating -d YYYYMMDD
>
> Where YYYYMMDD is the last time you did ports update, for example
> pkg_updating -d 20120923
>
> Miroslav Lachman
Greetings Miroslav,
That _is_ nice. Thank you for taking the time post this.
That'll help quite a bit!

--Chris

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