Updating Ports on Production Servers

[Scott Lambert]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:24:20PM -0500, Lewis Watson wrote:
> I am a big fan of the ports collection and use the ports to build the
> programs I use on our production servers. Now I am wanting to update some
> ports and have a chicken and egg issue. If I go ahead and update a port
> (pure-ftpd for example)...
> 
> After I run "CVSUP portfile"  the old version that's running has no
> graceful way of being removed.  If I try to remove it I am notified that
> the version that is running is not on the machine so then I guess force
> the uninstall? Either that or just do a make - make install and overwrite
> the old port binaries with the new binaries ( this does not seem good
> either).
> 
> It appears the only way to cleanly upgrade a port is to deinstall the
> current port. Run CVSUP portfile... and get the new port files... do a
> make - make install and get the new version of the port installed. This
> opens the machine to several minutes of downtime while the program is
> being made... (not good either)
> 
> Please tell me the way that it's being handled on your servers/ network...

Are you referring to "make deinstall"?  Don't use that to uninstall old
packages.  pkg_delete will remove a package for you.

/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade will handle all of this for you
including upgrading the required ports in the proper order.  Portupgrade
is also a faster typist. :-)

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org