[...]
Have you refreshed the ports tree(s) with csup using the same supfile to
ensure the ports trees are up to date ( and therefore identical)? Since you
are using portugrade, as I do, this is what I do to see what needs to be
done:
I cd to /usr/sup which is where I keep my supfiles and the
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:34:52 +0300
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com articulated:
[...]
Have you refreshed the ports tree(s) with csup using the same
supfile to ensure the ports trees are up to date ( and therefore
identical)? Since you are using portugrade, as I do, this is what I
do to
Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
csup -L 2 ports portsdb -uF pkgdb -u portversion
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
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
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kaya Saman wrote:
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??
The ports tree is just build instructions, so updating it doesn't update
any installed applications. It
Kaya Saman wrote:
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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??
Yes. A package is just a port that someone has
Thanks Warren and Michael! :-)
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kaya Saman wrote:
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??
The ports tree is just build instructions, so updating it doesn't update
Hi,
I have 2 servers one production and another test.
The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the
production machines one's even though I built the production system a
few months ago.
I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgrade the ports nad
re-install the
Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi,
I have 2 servers one production and another test.
The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the
production machines one's even though I built the production system a
few months ago.
I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgrade the
