Peter schrieb am Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:08:30PM -0500: > Le Vendredi 9 Mars 2007 18:24, Joachim Schipper a icrit : >> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Peter wrote: >> >>> On 4.0, besides uninstalling ports, updating the ports tree, and >>> re-installing is there any other way to do this? What is standard >>> practice? >> >> # pkg_add -ui > > Are you serious? I thought that was only for straight packages. > It actually fetches code from third party repositories?
Uh, oh, no. Your question wasn't terribly clear, i didn't get your meaning, either. You mean you compiled some piece of software yourself, from ports, and now want to update it? In that case, it depends on why you want to do that. In case there was a security fix, but the license does not allow the binary package to be distributed, you just update the single port directory (say, /usr/ports/www/amaya), e.g. using cvs. Be careful to get the correct tag, e.g. -rOPENBSD_4_0. After that, you say make clean; make build; sudo make package. You then have the package in /usr/ports/packages/<arch>/all and can install it using pkg_add -r. Be sure to take the new and and not the old one, which will also be around if you compiled it previously. For more info, see http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html, ports(7), pkg_add(1). If you want to run a -current port on -stable (because it's *so* cool), there is not guarantee it will work. Do *not* just cvs update such that you get a mixed ports tree - sooner or later, things will break. Better do something like this: cd /usr/ports mkdir -p mystuff/www cp -pR www/amaya mystuff/www/ In that copy, update the files manually, actually *reading* and fixing them. Sometimes, it is quite easy. Sometimes, it is very hard work. Sometimes, it won't work at all. In many cases, it will be a waste of time, in some cases, a valuable learning experience, if you persevere in doing it yourself. When you *really* need -current, it's probably better just to use a snapshot, a -current ports tree and to compile it there. But mind you, going back from -current to -stable is *not* supported. So in case you change your mind later, you need to reinstall from scratch. Besides, trying to learn the basics of the OS and trying to learn tracking -current at the same time is not a good idea. Yours, Ingo
