From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 2:51: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8AC037B401 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 70043 invoked by uid 100); 12 Aug 2001 09:51:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15222.20868.767874.803919@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 04:51:00 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How I update installed ports In-Reply-To: <69685395@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 m p types: > > Which is the correct way to update an installed port? > > update the src-tree, make reinstall I don't think this will do even vaguely the right things. > > update the src-tree, pkg_delete, make install Make it "make clean install", and this works quite well. It's pretty much what pkg_version -c does, only pkg_version -c does it in a way that won't remove the old version unless the new one builds properly. > And can some who have a good knowlegde about the porting/upgrading cyclus > please update the following entry in the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/applications.html#PORTS-UPDATE Other than mentioning that portupgrade exists, what needs to be done to it? It seems that the information in it is basically correct. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message