Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:41:29 +0100 From: Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@uni-duisburg.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question.... Message-ID: <20031127234129.GA4502@pandora.plagegeister.de> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127003929.01e02930@pop.voyager.net> References: <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <200311201113.29006.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <5.2.0.9.2.20031127003929.01e02930@pop.voyager.net>
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: > Mergemaster is definately one way to do it, but I prefer > Portupgrade. It's much simpler as far as I'm concerned and > does as good a job as mergemaster with less thinking involved > on the part of the user. :) Confusion! Mergemaster and portupgrade are very different tools. > Just CVsup your ports, then do "portupgrade -r -all", then > walk away and let it run. If you want to do a single port, > just do "portupgrade -r portname" Regular use of the ports system requires some maintenance - it's not just CVSup & portupgrade, for example: 1. CVSup 2. portsdb -Uu 3. pkgdb -F 4. portinstall or portupgrade 5. pkgdb -F Ciao, Mark Weinem
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