Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-29 Thread dan
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 17:19:09 you wrote: On Monday, 22 June 2009 16:48:02 RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
dan wrote: On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:20:12 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: RW wrote: Portmanger does cope with most of the portupgrade -o and portupgrade -r entries, although sometime it will need to be run (or rerun) in pristine-mode. just curious, do you know this because you

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-24 Thread mfv
On Monday, 22 June 2009 16:48:02 RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or

Thanks [upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?]

2009-06-23 Thread dan
Hello ! Thanks alll of you for taking time to answer my mail. I really appreciate it. I have (well...the system has) succesfully done the upgrade. I used both pkg_updating and portupdate-scan to scan UPDATING [pkg_updating did not show an entry suggesting to update python to version 2.6 (which

Re: Thanks [upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?]

2009-06-23 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 07:09:28 PDT dan wrote: I used both pkg_updating and portupdate-scan to scan UPDATING [pkg_updating did not show an entry suggesting to update python to version 2.6 (which Portupdate-scan did)]. Well, I just learned something from this thread. I didn't know about these

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-23 Thread dan
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:38:39 danny wrote: 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 ?

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: 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

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just by doing

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just by doing

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 13:48:02 PDT RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever

upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread danny
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

upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Huff
danny writes: 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? Not that I know of.

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: 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

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: 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