On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, "Glen Barber" <[email protected]> wrote: > Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using > the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile > using ports. Packages are built once, when the X.X-RELEASE comes out. > Did you read the portupgrade man page?
That's not entirely true. The portupgrade port installs a program called portinstall. According to its manpage, portinstall can -a- install from ports (compile), -b- install from packages or -c- install from packages only (where it works similar to pkg_add). Sidenote: Another fine tool is pkgdb -aF (comes with portupgrade port) to keep pkg_added packages and stuff installed by either portinstall or "manual" make install in synchronization. It's good to run this command before and after altering something on the installed packages. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
