From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 3:50:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904BE37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16uAFP-0005Ij-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 11:50:11 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:50:11 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "David S. Jackson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automated ports upgrading... Message-ID: <20020407105011.GB3018@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "David S. Jackson" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020406161831.A6065@sylvester.dsj.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020406161831.A6065@sylvester.dsj.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:18:31PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: > I'm still reading about portupgrade, but do I understand > correctly that this tool will relieve one of the task of manually > upgrading by hand everything from pkg_version -v | grep '<' > ?? Basically, yes. Or you can run "portversion -vL=" for the same list of packages that are not up to date. > Or is there still a better way that I haven't understood? You can just run "portupgrade -a" and it will upgrade everything that needs upgrading. If there are some ports that you'd rather not upgrade, or would like to upgrade them by hand, use "portupgrade -ia". Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message