From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 8:20:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A215637B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 8170 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 17:20:06 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-7-15.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.7.15) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 19 May 2001 17:20:06 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: MICHAEL SHARP , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 17:20:04 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010519131410.43992.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051917200405.95750@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message