Updating Ports on Production Servers

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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, 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...
> Thanks!
> Lewis
>
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