Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2 Message-ID: <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> References: <C147ED80-BE32-4C4D-A965-ED7C617BB97F@lafn.org> <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com>
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On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky = <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 > Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: >=20 >> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a production >> system. It has a few ports that were installed back when 8.2 was >> new. However, I need to add pdftk. Pkg_add did that nicely. >> HOwever, it added version 1.44. The history for pdftk shows that a >> major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering that problem >> and need to upgrade. Portupgrade pdftk does nothing. It seems to >> decide that the latest version is 1.44. However, on a 9.2 system, I >> get a much higher version number. Is there any way to determine if >> 1.44 is the latest version that will run with 8.2 or is there another >> way I need to upgrade to ports files? Its my understanding that >> cvsup is no longer with us. >=20 > how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is normal > as you kept the old ports tree. >=20 > If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have to > update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will have to > update all installed ports too and then install the program you need. >=20 > If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from > 8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful. Thats what I expected, but the question remains: how? Cvsup I believe = is no longer with us and purtupgrade apparently doesn't do that either.=
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