Quick newbie portupgrade question.

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Feb 27 00:27:59 PST 2004


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:19:36AM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> 
> >Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> >
> >>I understand that 'portupgrade -arR' will upgrade everything. Some are 
> >>packages and some are ports. Will portupgrade upgrade packages with 
> >>packages, and ports with ports, or do packages get replaced with 
> >>ports, so that all are ports after it's run?
> >
> >Check out the -P and -PP CLI switches
> >to portupgrade(1).....
> 
> If I read them correctly, I cannot have packages replaced with packages, 
> and ports with ports. That is, unless I can figure out which are which, 
> ahead of time, and select the right switches for the right things. Is 
> there an easy way to determine which are which?

No, see my response.

Kris
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