Hi Jerry and Michael,
thanks for all the advise and information!!
I think I was confusing terminologies a little....
I was trying to imply that I have been building from ports all this time
and *not* using pkg_add to obtain pre-built packages. I think mainly
it's just that I've been using package managers too much with Linux and
OpenSolaris distros that it got burned into my brain..... not to mention
that yesterday was a 14 hour shift without break which didn't help.
The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree
gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to
rebuild them??
You have to rebuild them.
Does this apply to ports too??
"portupgrade -a" or "portmanager -u" depending on what application you
are using. Switching between multiple port maintenance applications is
not the worse thing you could do; however, I would not recommend it as
an everyday occurrence.
Ok so "portupgrade -a" upgrades all ports according to the manual.
On 09/12/2010 03:52 PM, Michael Powell wrote:
[...]
To elaborate a little. csup -L 2 ports is what refreshes the ports tree.
Portupgrade is a third party app you can install to assist in automating the
updating process. Once you've installed portupgrade there are man pages for
portsdb, pkgdb, and portversion to see what the switches described above do.
The commands above are just strung together to prepare a system for
updating. portupgrade -a is actually what does the actual updating.
There are other tools as well, I'm just not as familiar with them. I think
the other one is called portmaster. It may even be better, I don't know as I
tend to stick with what I know as long as it keeps doing the job.
[
Ok, so if I understand correctly now is that the csup command refreshes
the ports tree while portupgrade upgrades the actual port itself....
eg:
cd /usr/ports/*/nano
make install clean
although not the case but say if this was to build version 1.8 of the
Nano text editor, running:
csup -L 2
portupgrade nano
would upgrade the installed version to 1.9??
Of course the current version of Nano is totally different I am just
trying to understand here!!
[...]
I don't know if I can properly explain well enough, but I'll take a stab at
it anyways. But I believe the first answer here would be no. Refreshing the
ports tree does not install or update any installed software.
I kind of keyed in on your mentioning of portupgrade. Portupgrade is a tool
for automating the upgrading of installed software. While I believe it, and
possibly portmaster can operate on pre-built packages I myself stopped using
packages a long time ago. I compile everything.
Ok I think this practically explains what I've just been trying to say
above.
[...]
Hope this helps. I'm not the best at explaining things, but the Handbook is
a most excellent resource to be studied extensively. It is written much
better than anything I can manage. And while much of it may seem cryptic at
first glance, most of what you need to know is in there.
Yep I think this helps a lot!!! :-)
-Mike
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Many thanks and best regards,
Kaya
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