Upgrading application(s)

[Charles Swiger]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Sasa Stupar wrote:
> I am quite new to freebsd. I have several applications build from  
> the ports collection. When some port change for a new version (I  
> cvsup my ports collection) how do I do upgrade of that application?  
> Is it the same as for the first time: just go to the port I want  
> and then type make and make install or is there another way?

Yes, there are other ways.

The two main choices for rebuilding new ports are sysutils/ 
portupgrade and sysutils/portmanager.  portupgrade is considered the  
default or standard tool, and it works quite well for most things,  
but has problems with KDE and GNOME in particular.

portmanager uses a rather different approach to handling  
dependencies, which can require more compiler work, but it seems to  
handles updating KDE and GNOME better than portupgrade does.

-- 
-Chuck