Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 00:39:03 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marco_Gon=E7alves?= <info@kolorbit.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> Subject: Re: Updating Ports on Production Servers Message-ID: <00b001c32c84$d4135d90$a51216c3@celeron1700> References: <00f501c32c82$c53e9750$de0a0a0a@vsis169>
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you really should check out portupgrade tool http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/portupgrade/ Bet regards Marco Gonçalves ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 12:24 AM Subject: Updating Ports on Production Servers > I am a big fan of the ports collection and use the ports to build the > programs I use on our production servers. Now I am wanting to update some > ports and have a chicken and egg issue. If I go ahead and update a port > (pure-ftpd for example)... > > After I run "CVSUP portfile" the old version that's running has no > graceful way of being removed. If I try to remove it I am notified that > the version that is running is not on the machine so then I guess force > the uninstall? Either that or just do a make - make install and overwrite > the old port binaries with the new binaries ( this does not seem good > either). > > It appears the only way to cleanly upgrade a port is to deinstall the > current port. Run CVSUP portfile... and get the new port files... do a > make - make install and get the new version of the port installed. This > opens the machine to several minutes of downtime while the program is > being made... (not good either) > > Please tell me the way that it's being handled on your servers/ network... > Thanks! > Lewis > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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