Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:22:35 +0200 From: "Johnny Choque" <jchoque@tlmat.unican.es> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: portupgrade Message-ID: <007f01c6c799$81e9e170$2bba90c1@Altair> In-Reply-To: <20060824112153.C575.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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> > > > > > But may I suggest you to use this, when upgrading ports: > > > > > > cd /usr/ports > > > make fetchindex > > > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u > > > /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -Fv > > > /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -v -i -a -r -c -C > > > > Great, Thanks for that. > > Eoghan > > Or, you could just run: > > portsnap fetch update # assumes you have run it before > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update # if > you haven't > portmanager -u -l > > It will save you time and trouble. It also assumes you have > 'portmanager' > installed. Portsnap is part of the base system. I'm newbie in Freebsd and initially I have use cvsup and portupgrade. I haven't clear what is the difference to use portupgrade, portsnap, portmanager, and other ones? Could you recommend us one of them? Johnny
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