> 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. 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 But I then usually do "portupgrade -Rra" which will upgrade all ports that are out of date and do so in the correct bottom-up order. portupgrade also includes pkgtools which lets you establish routine options you always use for installing a certain port. For example, the make option to use the MGA driver for a Matrox card instead of the XFree86 driver or to build Galeon with full mozilla. The file /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf lets you stop automatic upgrade of some ports and many other things to make keeping ports current quite easy. 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. 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
