Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:06:42 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, John Kozubik <john@www.kozubik.com>, Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports Message-ID: <3DA1E952.5040404@owt.com> References: <20021007195404.F40B95D06@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500 >>From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> >>Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >>At 12:21 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >> >>>Rus, >>> >>>Please take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, as it is the >>>appropriate tool for these sort of upgrades. >>> >>>Circumstantial evidence over the years has led me to believe that most >>>ports will actually successfully and without issue overwrite their >>>previous iterations that were also installed via the ports tree (lynx, >>>wget, things like that). >>> >>>----- >>>John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com >>> >>> >> > >>If you don't mind first deinstalling the old port, then a simple way is to: >># pkg_delete <foo_1> >>...then cd /usr/ports/foo_2: >>#make install clean >> >>You are now up to date..... > > > > This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the > dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to > handle these. Some of these are handled when I do a "-Rufp". It starts at the port and handles all of its dependancies. This isn't a good idea if XFree86 is one of the dependancies. Then -x option is supposed to take care of that but I have never used it. I have usually done a pkg_version -c and know what needs to be updated. When something disappears, which portupgrade does not handle, I delete the port and the new dependancies and start over. FWIW, I usually portupgrade on one system and I always create a package on that system. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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