Upgrading a Port on 8.2

[Erich Dollansky]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800
Hi,

Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:

> 
> On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800
> > Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a
> >> production system.  It has a few ports that were installed back
> >> when 8.2 was new.  However, I need to add pdftk.  Pkg_add did that
> >> nicely. HOwever, it added version 1.44.  The history for pdftk
> >> shows that a major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering
> >> that problem and need to upgrade.  Portupgrade pdftk does
> >> nothing.  It seems to decide that the latest version is 1.44.
> >> However, on a 9.2 system, I get a much higher version number.  Is
> >> there any way to determine if 1.44 is the latest version that will
> >> run with 8.2 or is there another way I need to upgrade to ports
> >> files?  Its my understanding that cvsup is no longer with us.
> > 
> > how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is
> > normal as you kept the old ports tree.
> > 
> > If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have
> > to update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will
> > have to update all installed ports too and then install the program
> > you need.
> > 
> > If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from
> > 8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful.
> 
> Thats what I expected, but the question remains:  how?  Cvsup I
> believe is no longer with us and purtupgrade apparently doesn't do
> that either.

I would suggest that you take ftp to download the current ports tree.
It contains then a current svn. You would not need svn after this as
the ports are downloaded by using fetch.

Of course, for further updates, I would recommend moving to svn.

Erich