portaudit question.....

[Gerard Seibert]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:07:40 -0500, Wright Jim Contractor 14MDSS/SGSI <jim.wright.ctr at columbus.af.mil>
Subject: portaudit question.....
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> To keep the story short:
> 
>  
> 
> I'm using version FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #6: Thu Aug 25 09:12:43 CDT 2005;
> pasted from the dmesg.boot file.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, I'm using CVSup, pkgdb -F, and portupgrade
> commands correctly.
> 
> But, I'm pretty sure I'm still overlooking and/or leaving something out.
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>  
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> I just discovered the portaudit command and ran it against my system.
> 
> It comes up with 15 items that need to be upgraded or deinstalled.
> 
> For this question I'll use Mozilla.
> 
> The version it reports is Mozilla-1.7.7,2.
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>  
> 
> When I go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
> <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html>  and do a search for Mozilla, I
> find that Mozilla-1.7.12,2 is the latest (stable) version.
> 
>  
> 
> I guess my question is this.
> 
> How do I use the FreeBSD tools, Ports/Packages, etc, to install this latest
> version??
> 
> Or am I missing the concept altogether ?
> 
> ( I understand the process of downloading this latest version and installing
> it manually. Just trying to understand and use the FreeBSD tools )
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>  
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> Thanks for any and all help,
> 
> Jim Wright
> 
> Columbus, Mississippi
> 
> 28 Sep 2005


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On 9/29/2005 4:29:46 PM, Gerard Seibert Replied:

Personally, I would first make sure you have a freshly updated ports
collection. Next, install 'portmanager' from the ports collection. Then
run it.

portmanager -u

This will take care of updating all of your out of date ports and their
dependencies.

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Gerard Seibert
<gerard at seibercom.net>