From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 14:24: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0AC37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.irbs.com (mx2.irbs.com [65.77.21.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DF643EA3 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:24:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@psydeshow.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.irbs.com [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.irbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A973078212 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psydeshow.org (unknown [66.65.121.162]) by mx2.irbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4620478211 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DA1FB5C.3040700@psydeshow.org> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:23:40 -0400 From: Chris Snyder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports References: <20021007195404.F40B95D06@ptavv.es.net> <3DA1E952.5040404@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Sophos Sweep Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart wrote: > I have usually done a pkg_version -c and know what needs to be updated. I use the pkg_version -c method as well-- it seems so much simpler than portupgrade, but am I missing something and/or running the risk of breaking things? FWIW I think that keeping your ports/packages up-to-date could be covered better in the Handbook, considering how important it is in terms of security. There's no mention of either portupgrade or pkg_version in the ports/packages coverage. chris. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message