Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:43:34 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> Cc: FreeBSD Q ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading application(s) Message-ID: <4374E656.1050501@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <D12B6DDC902A4BC813AE3C6A@[192.168.10.249]> References: <D12B6DDC902A4BC813AE3C6A@[192.168.10.249]>
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Sasa Stupar wrote: > Hi! > > 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? > > Regards, > Sasa As was already pointed out portmanager and portupgrade are the automated way of doing it, and both are quite good. To do it the manual way you need to go to the port you want to install and do a make deinstall before the make install otherwise it'll complain about the port already being installed. HTH, Micah
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