From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 21:21:30 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 D51F437B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A999343E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:20:06 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id B58FEBB2C; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:20:03 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "nate" , Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports automatically Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:20:03 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <13201.216.39.174.24.1025741853.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> In-Reply-To: <13201.216.39.174.24.1025741853.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020704042003.B58FEBB2C@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 portupgrade -a does the port equivalent of make buildworld / make installworld Lots of people use it with great success, I think, but the one time I tried it my ports database got messed up and I couldn't figure out how to fix it and would up re-installing FreeBSD from scratch, so I recommend caution. On Wednesday 03 July 2002 08:17 pm, nate wrote: | hi | | is there a way to upgrade installed ports(and only installed ports) | automatically (e.g. 'make upgrade' or something at toplevel /usr/ports) | | i would like to avoid having to track down each and every port | and manually upgrade ... | | (i just upgraded one system from 4.4 to 4.6) | | i looked around, and can't find any documented way to do this. I can | imagine if one had several hundred packages installed upgrading | each one could take forever .. | | thanks | | nate | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message