Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 17:20:04 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: MICHAEL SHARP <covert11@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <01051917200405.95750@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Saturday 19 May 2001 15:14, MICHAEL SHARP wrote: > About once a month I use cvsup to updrade src-all, > ports-all, and doc-all, do the usual routine of make > buildworld, make installworld, etc... > > My question is this, the ports that were already > installed, whats the best way to handle this. would > you deinstall and reinstall, or are fixes handle > dynamically, or what? > getting to be a faq this....... pkg_version -c > somefile will show you all ports with upgrades available the wise soul will study this output and judiciously run a few pkg_info -r and pkg_info -R and see what dependencies might raise their ugly heads before doing anything daft. The FreeBSD ports collection is a mighty and wonderful beast but you can break things if you are not a bit thoughtful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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