Updating the OS after an install

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Feb 3 22:25:31 PST 2004


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:00:52AM -0500, Krikket wrote:

[...]
> At this point, I'm willing to bet that it's a fairly safe bet to say that
> there are other packages on my system that are in need of updating.  Is
> there a way to universally update what's on my system to whatever's in the
> ports tree?

    # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
    # make install clean
    # rehash
    # portupgrade -a

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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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