From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 23:39:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5870A16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD07343D49 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:39:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKlUw-0007Ny-Tg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:38:03 +0200 Received: from r5k115.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:38:02 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:38:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:37:43 +0200 Lines: 75 Message-ID: <433B2947.5010708@pobox.sk> References: <200509282011.j8SKBKsQ004138@blaze.columbus.af.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k115.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200509282011.j8SKBKsQ004138@blaze.columbus.af.mil> Sender: news Subject: Re: portaudit question..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:39:20 -0000 Wright Jim Contractor 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: > To keep the story short: > > > > I'm using version FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #6: Thu Aug 25 09:12:43 CDT 2005; > pasted from the dmesg.boot file. > > To the best of my knowledge, I'm using CVSup, pkgdb -F, and portupgrade > commands correctly. > > But, I'm pretty sure I'm still overlooking and/or leaving something out. > > > > I just discovered the portaudit command and ran it against my system. > > It comes up with 15 items that need to be upgraded or deinstalled. > > For this question I'll use Mozilla. > > The version it reports is Mozilla-1.7.7,2. > > > > When I go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html > and do a search for Mozilla, I > find that Mozilla-1.7.12,2 is the latest (stable) version. > > > > I guess my question is this. > > How do I use the FreeBSD tools, Ports/Packages, etc, to install this latest > version?? > > Or am I missing the concept altogether ? > > ( I understand the process of downloading this latest version and installing > it manually. Just trying to understand and use the FreeBSD tools ) > > > > Thanks for any and all help, > > Jim Wright > > Columbus, Mississippi > > 28 Sep 2005 > jim, i recommend using portsnap instead of cvsup, especially if you update your ports tree often. then use portversion instead of pkg_version, it's much faster. and always and periodically run portaudit. you don't need your ports tree to be updated for portaudit to be effective, btw. so based on what i said, here's a procedure to follow: /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update /usr/local/sbin/portversion -v -l "<" /usr/local/sbin/portaudit -Fda hope that helps. regards, martin ps: regarding mozilla, if it's not packaged on freebsd's ftp server (that is pkg_add doesn't help), you've got to install it from ports (that is to compile it).