Quick newbie portupgrade question.

Shaun T. Erickson ste at ste-land.com
Thu Feb 26 22:19:38 PST 2004


Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

> Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> 
>> I understand that 'portupgrade -arR' will upgrade everything. Some are 
>> packages and some are ports. Will portupgrade upgrade packages with 
>> packages, and ports with ports, or do packages get replaced with 
>> ports, so that all are ports after it's run?
> 
> Check out the -P and -PP CLI switches
> to portupgrade(1).....

If I read them correctly, I cannot have packages replaced with packages, 
and ports with ports. That is, unless I can figure out which are which, 
ahead of time, and select the right switches for the right things. Is 
there an easy way to determine which are which?

	-ste



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