From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 21: 5:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C46D37B408 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFAA666D02; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:05:26 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Geoff Ludwiczak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: package upgrade? Message-ID: <20010909210526.A29718@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon>; from ludwicza@home.com on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0700, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > Hey, >=20 > I know there's a portupgrade utility to use for ports, but is there > something that can upgrade packages as well? I usually install alot of > packages, and I don't have the patience with ports because I have to wait= to > get the package from some anonymous site, and then wait for it to compile, > etc. So are packages just updated for each release or are they update > regularily? The build cluster rebuilds them all about once every 30 hours :-) > I'm a Debian user as well, and I'm used to being able to > upgrade packages easily with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Does this > sort of thing exist for FreeBSD? Yes, it's called portupgrade ;-) Kris --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nDwFWry0BWjoQKURAn/8AKDe3lzVpT8ee+JLGNEDSrVl+Ds+7wCeIVHl upFauF9w90rzSkija24FVD8= =mVPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message