Read the relevant portions of the handbook Chapter 5: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
Chapter 25: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Then also: man portmaster man freebsd-update On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ed Flecko <edfle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you both! > > Since I want to know the "correct" way (or one of I'm sure many correct > ways) of initially installing the OS and then getting it up to date (and > staying up to date), can you tell me what I did wrong and/or what I might > want to do differently? > > Ed > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org>wrote: > >> On 27/05/2013 19:00, Ed Flecko wrote: >> > Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. >> > >> > :-) >> > >> > I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but >> > pkg_version seems to disagree. >> > >> > I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my >> > install. After that, I use subversion to (I thought) make sure everything >> > was up to date. >> > >> > I ran these commands: >> > >> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/src >> > >> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/ports >> > >> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/doc >> > >> > and then I ran: >> > >> > >> > pkg_version -vIL = >> > >> > >> > >> > and it says "< needs updating (index has ...) on about 1 dozen items. So >> my >> > "index" is out of sync with my ports??? >> > >> > What did I screw up and how do I correct it? >> >> You seem to have updated the ports tree, which is a collection of >> recipes for how to build ported software, but not actually updated by >> rebuilding any of the ported software that has become out of date. >> >> Try installing ports-mgmt/portmaster and then running >> >> portmaster -a >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> -- >> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. >> PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
