Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 18:45:12 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg/ports question Message-ID: <5557D511.7070602@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net> References: <555786F1.8000509@hiwaay.net> <E0DC92E3-56FD-4F15-A5A3-44EF7E28E096@ardiefox.me> <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net>
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On 05/16/15 17:56, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 05/16/15 13:22, Ardie H. Hwang wrote:
>> Postmaster is for easy mass upgrading ports member softwares, not for
>> updating ports tree itself.
>>
>> Try `portsnap fetch update` first, then issue `portmaster -L` again.
>>
>> --
>> Ardie H. Hwang
>> ----------------
>> email:iam@ardiefox.me
>> mobile: +82-10-I-AM-ARDIE
>
> That's my point of misunderstanding, I thought my args to portmaster
> would check the remote repos for updates & report on them, man page
> seems to indicate that ....
>
BTW, what you suggested *did* work :-), thanks. I was/am just confused
over what portmaster will/won't do as far as checking on available
updates .... Thanks again.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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