From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 17:16:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE241106566C for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from mail-bw0-f221.google.com (mail-bw0-f221.google.com [209.85.218.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455538FC0C for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: by bwz21 with SMTP id 21so569911bwz.43 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:16:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.113.3 with SMTP id y3mr2165912fap.71.1246898848117; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:47:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:47:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1de79840907060947j6cdf96f6k7966a866ef02a13b@mail.gmail.com> From: Michael Proto To: "Ishmael F.E." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading ports without recompiling X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:16:39 -0000 On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Ishmael F.E. wrote: > Hi there > . > =BFHow can I upgrade my ports without having to recompile everything? > . > I allready did > # freebsd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade install > # reboot > # freebsd-update install > . > But it didn'nt upgrade the ports, so I tryed > # portupgrade -af > but it tried to compile everything > . > I also tried > # portsnap fetch > # portsnap extract > # portsnap fetch update > # portupgrade -a --batch -u -P > . > but it also tried to compile everything > . > so, =BFhow can I upgrade the ports? > unfortunatley I don't have time to compile my 64bit system You could use packages provided by the FreeBSD package repositories... portupgrade -aP Although those packages will contain the standard port options, which may differ from your installed ports if you compiled them originally and changed any of the options screens. If you're looking to upgrade ports with custom options applied, then rebuilding your ports from source is your only real option. -Proto