portupgrade, apache2/apache22, php4/php5
Vivek Khera
vivek at khera.org
Tue Nov 14 06:43:13 PST 2006
On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn at pfcs.com>:
>>
>>>> Will this "keep" across a "make update", or do I need to re-do
>>>> it every
>>>> time I update /usr/ports?
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with using "make update" and I don't see any
>>> info on
>>> it in man ports.
>>
>> I run "make update" from /usr/src - it updates /usr/src, /usr/
>> ports, etc.
>
> portupgrade updates the information in /var/db/pkg. If make update
> doesn't change /var/db/pkg, then the two will not affect one another,
> for better or for worse.
What "make update" does is run cvsup for you based on your settings
in /etc/make.conf of which SUPFILES to use for updating your system.
It has not much to do with portupgrade other than updating the ports
tree.
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