From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 21:04:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D062ABBC for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E2D7ED for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (static-71-177-216-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.177.216.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s8EKtAJ0001397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) From: Doug Hardie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Port/Package Upgrade Question Message-Id: Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:10 -0700 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:04:21 -0000 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. =20 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.=