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TIP: You can now upgrade apps

Posted by Jason on Friday April 20, @09:33PM
from the Do-It-In-Style dept.
A new port has been added to the ports tree and it allows you to upgrade an installed application from the ports tree. I tried it on a couple of my installed applications and it worked well. The utility is called portupgrade and it can be found in /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade.

I have heard that portupgrade will be included in FreeBSD-4.3-RELEASE. Until then, you will have to update your ports tree before you can install this utility.

The first time I tried to use portupgrade I received an error, so I thought I should read the man page but there was none. Next, I typed portupgrade, hit the enter key and a help screen was displayed. So I tried the utility again using the -o switch.

Here is the command I used to upgrade my bash shell from bash-2.04 to the current port of bash-2.05.

portupgrade -o /usr/ports/shells/bash2 bash

This command sequence downloaded bash-2.05, compiled it, installed it and removed my older version (bash-2.04).

I noticed that portupgrade did not clean up after itself, so I changed to the /usr/ports/shells/bash2 directory and issued a make clean command to cleanup the bash work directory after the install.

Note:
If you use portupgrade to upgrade a server daemon such as apache, you may want to stop that service prior to performing the upgrade.

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Re: TIP: You can now upgrade apps
by Jason on Wednesday April 25, @04:09PM

I have checked out 4.3-RELEASE and it does not appear to have the portupgrade utility installed by default, instead it has a new pkg_upgrade utility.

I believe this would require a package.tar.gz file. As apposed to grabbing source code via the ports tree like portupgrade does.

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Re: TIP: You can now upgrade apps
by You4eea on Saturday July 06, @03:32PM

I am running FreeBSD4.5 so should I use "portupgrade" or the "pkg_upgade" util. for updateing stuff that Ihave install vai the ports tree?

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Re: TIP: You can now upgrade apps
by Understudy on Saturday June 04, @10:56AM

portupgrade -arR
please read /usr/ports/UPDATING for any specfic notes on things that may affect you.

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