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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:48:02 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?
Message-ID:  <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A3FE271.8080201@onetel.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote:

> 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.

You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the
issues automatically, but not all.



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