From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 22 19:58:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E1A106566C for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from honeysuckle.london.02.net (honeysuckle.london.02.net [87.194.255.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971B88FC1A for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.73] (93.97.24.219) by honeysuckle.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23EDE60151CDBB; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4A3FE271.8080201@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: meslists@yahoo.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:53 -0000 Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/6/21 danny : >> Hi list members , >> >> I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded >> any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an >> article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. >> At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. >> The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to check >> if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes written in >> that file ? >> Do you prefer doing a mass or selective upgrade ? >> >> Thanks ! >> >> dan > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been down to an individual ports. I've never seen any reasons given for not using portmanager, just it seems to be getting quietly deprecated, which is a shame because it works supremely well. Having said that why not check out http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/, the new binary ports upgrade system and save yourself a bunch of compile time. Chris