Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:56:33 -0700 From: clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org> To: Lewis Watson <lists@visionsix.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Ports on Production Servers Message-ID: <20030606235633.GA13735@ruminary.org> In-Reply-To: <00f501c32c82$c53e9750$de0a0a0a@vsis169> References: <00f501c32c82$c53e9750$de0a0a0a@vsis169>
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:24:20PM -0500, Lewis Watson wrote: > > 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) > If your production servers are similar enough and you aren't worried about hardware differences or CPU optimizations, just pick one server to cvsup to the latest ports tree and then do a "make package" then just do a pkg_delete old_pkg_name, and a pkg_add new_pkg_name.tgz --clark
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