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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:05:26 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Geoff Ludwiczak <ludwicza@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: package upgrade?
Message-ID:  <20010909210526.A29718@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon>; from ludwicza@home.com on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0700
References:  <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon>

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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0700, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote:
> Hey,
>=20
> I know there's a portupgrade utility to use for ports, but is there
> something that can upgrade packages as well?  I usually install alot of
> packages, and I don't have the patience with ports because I have to wait=
 to
> get the package from some anonymous site, and then wait for it to compile,
> etc.  So are packages just updated for each release or are they update
> regularily?

The build cluster rebuilds them all about once every 30 hours :-)

> I'm a Debian user as well, and I'm used to being able to
> upgrade packages easily with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.  Does this
> sort of thing exist for FreeBSD?

Yes, it's called portupgrade ;-)

Kris

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