From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 18:15:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8FEC116A41F for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:15:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E3F43D46 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:15:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956995F78; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:15:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00517-02; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02A75DDA; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7B73A773-D5C5-4628-A820-A568ED4CB303@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:15:50 -0500 To: Sasa Stupar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: FreeBSD Q ML Subject: Re: Upgrading application(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:15:53 -0000 On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Sasa Stupar wrote: > I am quite new to freebsd. I have several applications build from > the ports collection. When some port change for a new version (I > cvsup my ports collection) how do I do upgrade of that application? > Is it the same as for the first time: just go to the port I want > and then type make and make install or is there another way? Yes, there are other ways. The two main choices for rebuilding new ports are sysutils/ portupgrade and sysutils/portmanager. portupgrade is considered the default or standard tool, and it works quite well for most things, but has problems with KDE and GNOME in particular. portmanager uses a rather different approach to handling dependencies, which can require more compiler work, but it seems to handles updating KDE and GNOME better than portupgrade does. -- -Chuck