From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 21:21:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466D61065674 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6548FC12 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.76] (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF80171A400; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4A414751.9090804@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <4A3FE271.8080201@onetel.com> <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:23 -0000 RW wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 > Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >> I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using >> ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten >> about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it >> was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or >> two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been >> down to an individual ports. > > You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the > issues automatically, but not all. Not trolling but can you give me some examples? Chris