Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Marcio Merlone <mm@surf.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports after CVSup Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210180954040.18035-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <3DAFFE53.1070105@surf.com.br>
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Marcio Merlone wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:03 -0300 > From: Marcio Merlone <mm@surf.com.br> > To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports after CVSup > > > > John Bleichert wrote: > > I've CVSup'd my system to 4.7 and all is well. Tonight I CVSup'd the ports > > tree. Now, a couple quick questions: > > > > Is there an automated way to upgrade all my installed ports, if an > > update is available? Or do I just do it manually by remaking them? > > > > Is this a job for portupgrade? I'm trying that now. What is the accepted > > method for upgrading installed ports? > > Yes. I did a portupgrade -a on my workstation (Compaq Deskpro PIII 800 > (+-) w/ 128RAM and it took about 2 days compiling my 377 installed > packages. I just had to fix some inconsistencies with pkgdb -F > (return-return-return...) first, answer "Accept" when got to compile JDK > and everything got smooth. > Those inconsistencies came becouse it was FBSD 4.5, upgraded to 4.6 and > to 4.6.2 and now to 4.7 and this was the first time I did portupgrade. > > [ ]'s > > -- > Marcio Merlone > yep I did it last night, it went fine. About 4.5 hours to build 183 ports. I didn't rebuild the JDK but it works fine with Mozilla and that's all I need it for :) portupgrade is quite cool, seems to work great. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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