pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

[Ed Flecko]

Thank you both!

Since I want to know the "correct" way (or one of I'm sure many correct
ways) of initially installing the OS and then getting it up to date (and
staying up to date), can you tell me what I did wrong and/or what I might
want to do differently?

Ed


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 27/05/2013 19:00, Ed Flecko wrote:
> > Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but
> > pkg_version seems to disagree.
> >
> > I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
> > install. After that, I use subversion to (I thought) make sure everything
> > was up to date.
> >
> > I ran these commands:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/src
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/ports
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/svn up /usr/doc
> >
> > and then I ran:
> >
> >
> > pkg_version -vIL =
> >
> >
> >
> > and it says "< needs updating (index has ...) on about 1 dozen items. So
> my
> > "index" is out of sync with my ports???
> >
> > What did I screw up and how do I correct it?
>
> You seem to have updated the ports tree, which is a collection of
> recipes for how to build ported software, but not actually updated by
> rebuilding any of the ported software that has become out of date.
>
> Try installing ports-mgmt/portmaster and then running
>
>     portmaster -a
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
> --
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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