Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:51:14 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port/Package Upgrade Question Message-ID: <8D08008B-DA03-4EC0-ACF1-E96CBC26D583@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20140915144034.58b7c848@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <DBA83A38-E38E-4392-8D49-F9E112C5C99D@lafn.org> <20140915144034.58b7c848@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 15 September 2014, at 05:40, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:10 -0700 Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: >> I have a number of systems that I need to upgrade to 9.3. I have one >> system that is the development/test system. Its already at 9.3 and it >> has a number of ports/packages installed that need to be on the >> production systems. In the past I have built packages for each in >> /usr/ports/packages/All and then just mounted that directory via NFS >> on the production machines and used pkg_add to install them on the >> production machines. >> >> Some of these are packages in that they use the default configuration. >> Unfortunately, some of them have to be compiled via the ports system >> as they use non-standard options. I have made a package for each of >> them. >> >> None of the production systems have pkg on them. They all use the >> old packages stuff. I suspect I will first need to convert them over >> to the pkg system. Thats not a big deal as its a fairly quick process. >> However, how do I then upgrade the ports/packages from the test system? >> The production systems can't be used to recompile the ports as that >> would involve too much down time. > > Same as before just "pkg add" instead of "pkg_add". See man pkg-add > for more details. > > Thanks to both who responded. I see two good ways to do it now.
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