2009/6/21 danny <[email protected]>: > Hi list members , > > I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded > any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an > article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. > At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. > The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to check > if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes written in > that file ? > Do you prefer doing a mass or selective upgrade ? > > Thanks ! > > dan
I would tend to upgrade perl first; have a look in UPDATING to see how it's done. That'll upgrade the majority of your ports too. You may also have a small problem if you're still running XFree86 (which you probably will if you've had your system a while). Look in UPDATING for that too, and then just do a portupgrade -aP. Good luck, and I hope your processor's properly cooled! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
