Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:40:34 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port/Package Upgrade Question Message-ID: <20140915144034.58b7c848@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <DBA83A38-E38E-4392-8D49-F9E112C5C99D@lafn.org> References: <DBA83A38-E38E-4392-8D49-F9E112C5C99D@lafn.org>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:10 -0700 Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > I have a number of systems that I need to upgrade to 9.3. I have one > system that is the development/test system. Its already at 9.3 and it > has a number of ports/packages installed that need to be on the > production systems. In the past I have built packages for each in > /usr/ports/packages/All and then just mounted that directory via NFS > on the production machines and used pkg_add to install them on the > production machines. > > Some of these are packages in that they use the default configuration. > Unfortunately, some of them have to be compiled via the ports system > as they use non-standard options. I have made a package for each of > them. > > None of the production systems have pkg on them. They all use the > old packages stuff. I suspect I will first need to convert them over > to the pkg system. Thats not a big deal as its a fairly quick process. > However, how do I then upgrade the ports/packages from the test system? > The production systems can't be used to recompile the ports as that > would involve too much down time. Same as before just "pkg add" instead of "pkg_add". See man pkg-add for more details.
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