Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:54:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> 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: <C147ED80-BE32-4C4D-A965-ED7C617BB97F@lafn.org> <20140218134344.07d1b0fa@X220.alogt.com> <89558292-BAD3-46B1-82E5-63501340AE0B@lafn.org>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800 Hi, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > > On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky > <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 > > Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> 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
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