Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:34:59 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? Message-ID: <20090622223459.GA75560@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <b79ecaef0906211307g7be0d5baob2b1cf279dac3c5b@mail.gmail.com> <4A3FE271.8080201@onetel.com> <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 13:48:02 PDT RW wrote: >On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 >Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > >> I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using >> ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten >> about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it >> was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or >> two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been >> down to an individual ports. > >You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the issues >automatically, but not all. that durned human element again! would be nice if a port upgrade tool did that for you, displayed any entries related to ports that need updating, and gave you a chance to postpone the update until you've taken whatever actions UPDATING suggests would require UPDATING to be written in a consistent, machine-readable format
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