On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:19:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by > > just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. > > > > As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for > > potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is > > running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for > > issues for your system? > > I generally run pkg_version -vIL= after any portsnap > which gives me a simple list of things to upgrade. > Then, based on a lot of broken stuff over the years, > you can merrily pick your way through. For something > like cairo or gtk* (or gettext), that many other things > depend upon I will run > # portupgrade -fr cairo > Part of this is the whole "upgrade once every couple > of weeks or oft'ner" so you don't get overwhealmed > by the number of upgrades at any time. > ports-mgmt/portmaster has a nifty feature in "-l" but > does not seem to have any equivalent to portupgrade -fr.
i have another good one for sorting out what needs to be updated: pkg_version -v|grep needs this will show only the ports that need to upgraded. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
