running portupgrade -a

[Jonathan Horne]

On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:19:22 illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by
> > just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books.
> >
> > As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for
> > potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is
> > running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for
> > issues for your system?
>
> I generally run pkg_version -vIL= after any portsnap
> which gives me a simple list of things to upgrade.
> Then, based on a lot of broken stuff over the years,
> you can merrily pick your way through.  For something
> like cairo or gtk* (or gettext), that many other things
> depend upon I will run
> # portupgrade -fr cairo
> Part of this is the whole "upgrade once every couple
> of weeks or oft'ner" so you don't get overwhealmed
> by the number of upgrades at any time.
> ports-mgmt/portmaster has a nifty feature in "-l" but
> does not seem to have any equivalent to portupgrade -fr.

i have another good one for sorting out what needs to be updated:

pkg_version -v|grep needs

this will show only the ports that need to upgraded.

cheers,
-- 
Jonathan Horne
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