Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:11:26 -0600 (MDT) From: User Shane <shane@random.randomwords.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading Packages and Ports Message-ID: <200404262111.i3QLBQ51055158@random.randomwords.ca>
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Hello Everyone, This is my first post so please pardon me if I mess up here... I installed 4.9 STABLE about 6 months ago and have been happy ever since. 4.9 is running on a Pentium 166. It isn't a production server in any way but a hobby machine to learn BSD. At the time, I seemed to me that the best route to runningn the services I wanted was to install the bigger more difficult ones from the CD like bind and sendmail. The rest of the services I wanted: MySQL, apache, mod_php, etc I built from ports. I happened upon some articles about FreeBSD on O'Reilly about keeping up to date and I tried to implement some of them. I CVSup'd a new ports list, updated the pkg data base and then ran 'pkg_version' to tell me if I had the most current versions. The listing told me that I had some outdated ones, so I used 'portsupgrade -arR' and things seemed to be going well. Abscent from the list was Sendmail and Bind. Despite the fact that both of those serices were running well. So, as an experiment I went to /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and strangely sendmail was built with 'make install clean' pkg_version tells me that I have sendmail 8.10.12 (something like that) but when I 'telnet 127.0.0.1 25' sendmail tells me that it's a lower version number. Some ports like 'phpmyadmin' automatically upgraded themseleves ... I am missing some thing here, but what? Thanks in advance for any insight you can share. Shane
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