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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:36:47 +0100
From:      Huw Wynn-Jones <huwwynnjones@neuf.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: system wide ports upgrade
Message-ID:  <200411201536.47617.huwwynnjones@neuf.fr>
In-Reply-To: <419EBF38.90904@yahoo.com>
References:  <419EBF38.90904@yahoo.com>

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On Saturday 20 November 2004 04:51, Steel City Phantom wrote:
> i remember there being a program out there that will go through all
> my installed apps and upgrade them with the latest versions in the
> ports collection, what was it called again?
>
> thanks

portupgrade is the program. it is found in /usr/ports/sysutils/

portupgrade -varR will upgrade everything including all dependencies.

check the man page cos you can get it to upgrade using binaries 
instead of compiling, if they are available.

also the below article is very useful.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html

cheers

Huw



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