Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:20:57 +1100 From: nano <nanotek@bsdbox.co> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2 Message-ID: <5302FBC9.2090903@bsdbox.co> In-Reply-To: <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org> References: <C147ED80-BE32-4C4D-A965-ED7C617BB97F@lafn.org> <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org>
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On 18/02/2014 4:51 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 >> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: >> >>> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a production >>> system. It has a few ports that were installed back when 8.2 was >>> new. However, I need to add pdftk. Pkg_add did that nicely. >>> HOwever, it added version 1.44. The history for pdftk shows that a >>> major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering that problem >>> and need to upgrade. Portupgrade pdftk does nothing. It seems to >>> decide that the latest version is 1.44. However, on a 9.2 system, I >>> get a much higher version number. Is there any way to determine if >>> 1.44 is the latest version that will run with 8.2 or is there another >>> way I need to upgrade to ports files? Its my understanding that >>> cvsup is no longer with us. >> >> how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is normal >> as you kept the old ports tree. >> >> If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have to >> update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will have to >> update all installed ports too and then install the program you need. >> >> If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from >> 8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful. > > Thats what I expected, but the question remains: how? Cvsup I believe is no longer with us and purtupgrade apparently doesn't do that either. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > with portsnap: # portsnap fetch extract # portsnap update with subversion: # cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make install clean # svn checkout https://svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports # svn update /usr/ports -- bsdbox.co
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