At 03:39 PM 10/7/02 -0700, you wrote: >> From: "Andrew Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:18:22 -0400 >> >> AFAIK, doesn't portupgrade come with another utility called portversion? >> I use portversion -r (for recursive) to figure out what packages I do >> need to upgrade. It gives a nice read-out of what to upgrade. > >Yes, portversion is a part of portupgrade. It should do almost >anything pkg_version does except -c.
Excuse me? I've been using portversion -c since I installed the damned thing and it does for portupdate exactly what pkg_version -c did for pre-portupdate updating. I would regard it as a boon if the script didn't sometimes do things (at least when run remotely) that cause my machine to reboot spontaneously (fatal trap 12). > I use "portversion -vL=" to check >on what needs updating. But I then usually do "portupgrade -Rra" which >will upgrade all ports that are out of date and do so in the correct >bottom-up order. > <sigh> wish I had that much disk space. I can only afford to install a few ports. <snip> >The biggest down-side is the requirement that I run portsdb -Uu to >update the databases after a cvsup of the ports tree. This is a pretty >CPU intensive operation and can take a while on an older system. > Yeah, it takes around 16 hours on my system, and usually causes a spontaneous reboot if I do it remotely (fatal trap 12). I haven't figured out a way to find out what it's doing to cause the reboots, since there seems to be no particular reason for fatal trap 12 (what I mean is the error message "fatal trap 12" does not indicate one particular type of failure; I usually get the further message "Page fault in kernel mode", which also doesn't seem to identify any particular type of problem). >R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) >Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
