On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Kaya Saman <kayasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/25/2011 03:44 PM, Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Marco Beishuizen<mb...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, the wise Kaya Saman wrote: >>> >>>> Then ran portupgrade -a >>>> >>>> for some weird reason the packages listed below didn't get upgraded; >>>> upon >>>> the error output 'portupgrade' was trying to replace the port with the >>>> same >>>> version: eg. apache-2.2.13 error came up with the fact that >>>> apache-2.2.13 >>>> was to be installed again but was already installed so I needed to run: >>>> make >>>> deinstall; make install; make clean in order to re-install >>>> apache22...... >>> >>> Did you csup your portstree first? >>> >> He used portsnap, which does the same thing. >> By the way: "portsnap fetch extract update" is pointless: "extract" >> gives you a clean copy of the last fetched version, and "update" >> extracts only what has changed since the last extract or update. Use >> "portsnap fetch extract" once, then "portsnap fetch update" from then >> on. (Or replace "fetch" with "cron" if you're doing this automatically >> - it adds a random delay to not overload the servers at popular times >> of the day.) >> > Thanks for the tip! > > It's my first time updating/upgrading a FreeBSD system so any 'experienced' > advice is always valid and welcome :-) >
Ah, right. :) The nice thing with "update" is that it's much faster than "extract" - as I'm sure you'll notice. -- Daniel Nebdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
