upgrading ports without recompiling

Michael Proto mike at jellydonut.org
Mon Jul 6 17:20:17 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Michael Proto<mike at jellydonut.org> wrote:

> You could use packages provided by the FreeBSD package repositories...
>
> portupgrade -aP
>
> Although those packages will contain the standard port options, which
> may differ from your installed ports if you compiled them originally
> and changed any of the options screens. If you're looking to upgrade
> ports with custom options applied, then rebuilding your ports from
> source is your only real option.
>
>
> -Proto
>

Sorry, try "portupgrade -aPP" to use ONLY precompiled packages.


-Proto


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