system wide ports upgrade
Huw Wynn-Jones
huwwynnjones at neuf.fr
Sat Nov 20 06:36:07 PST 2004
On Saturday 20 November 2004 04:51, Steel City Phantom wrote:
> i remember there being a program out there that will go through all
> my installed apps and upgrade them with the latest versions in the
> ports collection, what was it called again?
>
> thanks
portupgrade is the program. it is found in /usr/ports/sysutils/
portupgrade -varR will upgrade everything including all dependencies.
check the man page cos you can get it to upgrade using binaries
instead of compiling, if they are available.
also the below article is very useful.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
cheers
Huw
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