From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 16:56:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1081637B404 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B308A43FAF for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91FA122E13; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:56:33 -0700 From: clark shishido To: Lewis Watson Message-ID: <20030606235633.GA13735@ruminary.org> References: <00f501c32c82$c53e9750$de0a0a0a@vsis169> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f501c32c82$c53e9750$de0a0a0a@vsis169> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Ports on Production Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 23:56:34 -0000 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