From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 22:19:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180AE16A58C for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23EC13C4AD for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so50897nfb for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:19:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZCVTrpSI2Ej+U3QEBuerxpStNUmu3hzgPta8A3aa0oK8VOhqD3ZRRGe4MrbwkCSBiB9aQqKahzVRpZkJGNmXeSK+qiPe/9tO66LeaFnLWT41JUh65FLNCSXLJID9/EyCGeM8FiJRdozwjVBgIBCMZVhWJqTIGRfY8aLjSeh1rF4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C1pkON5n6Qtm+8SYAmpCjhEzkYFKLIXqoTK32z6i5XOH21vD/CUvyhGRgzTieoYeZOrgppAPSKyLu5GftCqqfuz34jWaWyZRTDpaG81IsNfz6tb0oNMp0GCZ6bCOQn5LYi8HSnz8UJsoqGMfrdJhVjcp7UFrz4/dApjIGh0qD44= Received: by 10.82.134.12 with SMTP id h12mr11662917bud.1183328362240; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:19:22 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Subject: Re: running portupgrade -a 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: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:19:24 -0000 On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi, > > It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just > running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. > > As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for > potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is > running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues > for your system? > I generally run pkg_version -vIL= after any portsnap which gives me a simple list of things to upgrade. Then, based on a lot of broken stuff over the years, you can merrily pick your way through. For something like cairo or gtk* (or gettext), that many other things depend upon I will run # portupgrade -fr cairo Part of this is the whole "upgrade once every couple of weeks or oft'ner" so you don't get overwhealmed by the number of upgrades at any time. ports-mgmt/portmaster has a nifty feature in "-l" but does not seem to have any equivalent to portupgrade -fr. -- --