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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:42:47 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade, apache2/apache22, php4/php5
Message-ID:  <695E1210-3318-4B0D-913C-C67D641AD8A9@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061113172509.eba487b1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20061113173025.E8A672841A@gwc.pfcs.com> <20061113125057.f8334988.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061113182501.EE51B2841A@gwc.pfcs.com> <20061113140143.11976c73.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061113221853.4C78D2841A@gwc.pfcs.com> <20061113172509.eba487b1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Bill Moran wrote:

> In response to Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>:
>>
>>>> Will this "keep" across a "make update", or do I need to re-do  
>>>> it every
>>>> time I update /usr/ports?
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with using "make update" and I don't see any  
>>> info on
>>> it in man ports.
>>
>> I run "make update" from /usr/src - it updates /usr/src, /usr/ 
>> ports, etc.
>
> portupgrade updates the information in /var/db/pkg.  If make update
> doesn't change /var/db/pkg, then the two will not affect one another,
> for better or for worse.

What "make update" does is run cvsup for you based on your settings  
in /etc/make.conf of which SUPFILES to use for updating your system.   
It has not much to do with portupgrade other than updating the ports  
tree.


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