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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2001 17:20:04 +0200
From:      Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To:        MICHAEL SHARP <covert11@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports
Message-ID:  <01051917200405.95750@pcmarpxy.tninet.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Saturday 19 May 2001 15:14, MICHAEL SHARP wrote:
> About once a month I use cvsup to updrade src-all,
> ports-all, and doc-all, do the usual routine of make
> buildworld, make installworld, etc...
>
> My question is this, the ports that were already
> installed, whats the best way to handle this. would
> you deinstall and reinstall, or are fixes handle
> dynamically, or what?
>
getting to be a faq this.......

pkg_version -c > somefile   will show you all ports with upgrades available

the wise soul will study this output and judiciously run a few 

pkg_info -r  and pkg_info -R 


and see what dependencies might raise their ugly heads
before doing anything daft.

The FreeBSD ports collection is a mighty and wonderful beast but
you can break things if you are not a bit thoughtful.


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