Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:34:16 +0000 From: Jarrod Wageman <ghast@dieflux.afraid.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade -a question Message-ID: <20040603233416.GA27303@dieflux.afraid.org>
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Hello, I have a freebsd box I just set up and I am wondering about some things. I just ran `make buildworld` installworld and all that after an extensive cvsup. I still have perl version 5.6 something. The new version according to perl.com is 5.8 I ran portupgrade -a and it didn't upgrade anything. Do I need to move to the CURRENT source tree to get these new packages installed? It seems I have many dated packages on this freebsd box. Here is the steps I take to update... cvsup -g -L 2 <supfile> I am using the stable tree. portsdb -Uu portversion -l "<" (nothing ever returns) portupgrade -a (this says something like: No need to upgrade fvwm-blahversion) (according to a freebsd site I found off of google, this is the proper way to go about updating) pkgdb -Fu My kernel is updated, my source tree is updated. But perl is an old version, openssh is an old version. Maybe I do not understand how the stable tree works, or ports in itself works, are the security and bug fixes patched and the version numbers maintained? That seems a bit odd to me. Anyhow I am a noob. Thanks for your time and patience. J.W. -- Friends don't let friends support microsoft. www.gentoo.org
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