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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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