Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:57:26 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Ishmael F.E." <sulfurfff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading ports without recompiling Message-ID: <1246899446.2437.227.camel@strangepork.london.mintel.ad> In-Reply-To: <ed5c0bbe0907060904m2a93aab7r9b17b8b5529dd8f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <ed5c0bbe0907060904m2a93aab7r9b17b8b5529dd8f0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 11:04 -0500, Ishmael F.E. wrote: > Hi there > . > ¿How can I upgrade my ports without having to recompile everything? > . > I allready did > # freebsd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade install > # reboot > # freebsd-update install > . > But it didn'nt upgrade the ports, so I tryed > # portupgrade -af > but it tried to compile everything > . > I also tried > # portsnap fetch > # portsnap extract > # portsnap fetch update > # portupgrade -a --batch -u -P > . > but it also tried to compile everything > . > so, ¿how can I upgrade the ports? > unfortunatley I don't have time to compile my 64bit system > . > . portupgrade will use packages where available with the -P flag, and will only use packages with the -PP flag. However, since you say it failed to find packages with -P, falling back to recompiling, then it will probably fail even more with -PP. man portupgrade for more details. Cheers Tom
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