From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 18 05:51:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFF0B9D5 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30561F57 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (static-71-177-216-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.177.216.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.7/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s1I5ppuU084027 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2 From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org> References: <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> To: Erich Dollansky X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:51:53 -0000 On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky = wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 > Doug Hardie 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.=