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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Migrating to FreeBSD from Debian
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On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Stephen Cook wrote:

> On 12/7/2015 9:13 AM, Paul Stuffins wrote:
>
>> One of my main frustrations is upgrading installed ports, on Debian I just
>> need to run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade", but I have never
>> been able to work out how to upgrade installed ports.
>
>
> portmaster -a

Only after reading the newest entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING and doing 
those first.  Always, always read that first.  Here is a complete 
overview of updating ports:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html