From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 23:30:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 1CC3816A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dieflux.afraid.org (c-67-170-54-161.client.comcast.net [67.170.54.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A3843D31 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghast@dieflux.afraid.org) Received: by dieflux.afraid.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BBA8B44F13; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:34:16 +0000 From: Jarrod Wageman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040603233416.GA27303@dieflux.afraid.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: portupgrade -a question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 06:30:26 -0000 Hello, I have a freebsd box I just set up and I am wondering about some things. I just ran `make buildworld` installworld and all that after an extensive cvsup. I still have perl version 5.6 something. The new version according to perl.com is 5.8 I ran portupgrade -a and it didn't upgrade anything. Do I need to move to the CURRENT source tree to get these new packages installed? It seems I have many dated packages on this freebsd box. Here is the steps I take to update... cvsup -g -L 2 I am using the stable tree. portsdb -Uu portversion -l "<" (nothing ever returns) portupgrade -a (this says something like: No need to upgrade fvwm-blahversion) (according to a freebsd site I found off of google, this is the proper way to go about updating) pkgdb -Fu My kernel is updated, my source tree is updated. But perl is an old version, openssh is an old version. Maybe I do not understand how the stable tree works, or ports in itself works, are the security and bug fixes patched and the version numbers maintained? That seems a bit odd to me. Anyhow I am a noob. Thanks for your time and patience. J.W. -- Friends don't let friends support microsoft. www.gentoo.org