Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:25:25 -0500 From: Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: meslists@yahoo.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? Message-ID: <20090621222525.GA81694@scout.stangl.us> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0906211307g7be0d5baob2b1cf279dac3c5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <b79ecaef0906211307g7be0d5baob2b1cf279dac3c5b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/6/21 danny <meslists@yahoo.fr>: > > I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded > > any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an > > article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. > > At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. > > The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to check > > if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes written in > > that file ? Try ports-mgmt/portupdate-scan. It attempts to filter UPDATING to only show entries pertinent to your installed ports. Alex
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