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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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