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 wrote: > > > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using > > > ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten > > > about /usr/po

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:20:12 +0100 Chris Whitehouse 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 know how

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 wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse 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 -

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 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 s

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 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 > >

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 > > Chris Whitehouse 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 al

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 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

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 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 'portma

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 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 'portmanag

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 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 upgra

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse 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 'portmanager -u

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse 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 'portmanager -u

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 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

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 ? /usr

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 : > > 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 portupgra

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/21 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