From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 18 07:54:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78BEDDA6 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4533917E2 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:54:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=14YEJCMi3NiPw0ovUyedZCIMaZxVleCniFTG+2a9Kxo=; b=bj47qSXdhhhg8AKLV01F+It5o8jIhbksiaq6LO8UmM0PWaIUk6eG4vgOm1PSk4a9BNlHK8YauNAydAVgKd6dh18ztO3OwZaLnuEBDrpKqDDd/vSKyMPrI/NwqIojl0m/aptE3NUENEdXwrDOmXqBPjlcZ8yVTI93XMwSX+c0KAw=; Received: from [39.210.205.63] (port=59582 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1WFfVb-002uee-7o; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:54:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:54:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2 Message-ID: <20140218155418.35f11ef5@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org> References: <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: 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 07:54:29 -0000 On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800 Hi, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 > > Doug Hardie wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is > > normal as you kept the old ports tree. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. I would suggest that you take ftp to download the current ports tree. It contains then a current svn. You would not need svn after this as the ports are downloaded by using fetch. Of course, for further updates, I would recommend moving to svn. Erich