Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:32:36 +0200 (CEST) From: James Tapping <james@fr.clara.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Adam Kranzel <adam@alameda.edu>, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Question Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104112031550.22511-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <004601c0c2a0$58708960$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org>
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Thanks I will give it a go. James On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Tapping" <james@fr.clara.net> > To: "Adam Kranzel" <adam@alameda.edu> > Cc: <newbies@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:32 PM > Subject: Re: CVSup Questions > > > > I have managed to get it ok, I am still a bit confused about when > the > > actual updates of ports are or can be done. I updated proftpd for > > example. With Make deinstall make install (and a make clean > somewhere) is > > there not a update everything button :-) I come from the debian > world :-) > > There is, it's just a quite freaky button. > > Issue a 'pkg_version -cl'<' | grep -v echo | grep -v exit | sh' as > root. This queries the package database (which includes installed > ports), returns all necessary commands for upgrading those ports which > are not up to date, and pipes the output to sh. Result: All ports & > packages which are newer than the ones installed get rebuilt and > installed. See http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkg_version.html for > details. > > > Greetings, > > Michael Nottebrock > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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