Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:26 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade questions Message-ID: <4730B7EA.3070206@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20071105055724.N17994@wonkity.com> References: <BAY114-W1198B68AE765DD630D744BBB8F0@phx.gbl><20071105135017.76a2c48a@meijome.net> <20071105070952.50ba2f37@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <000c01c81f93$344c2c40$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> <20071105055724.N17994@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > >> A total noob here with FreeBSD, but am liking it so far. I went to run >> portupgrade for the first time and encountered quite a few problems. I >> have googled around and found some of my answers, but it's been slow >> going. For example: >> >> cairo# portupgrade -aF > > The thing you should be doing first is checking /usr/ports/UPDATING. > Major things can change, and portupgrade may not be able to handle them > without help. You could try portmanager, it seems to handle most things so it's great for lazy people (like me :) Port: portmanager-0.4.1_9 Path: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager Chris
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