Did not use port_upgrade

David King dking at ketralnis.com
Sun Aug 20 01:16:33 UTC 2006


>> Do I need to make deinstall all of these ports and start all over?
> I'd appreciate someone correcting me if I'm wrong; I think you should
> just be able to upgrade your ports tree (directions in the  
> Handbook) and
> then the ports will compile with the latest versions.

That should be the case, yes. I occasionally use portupgrade, and  
occasionally do upgrading directly from the Ports tree, and haven't  
had any issues with it yet. pkg_version and friends still work great,  
and when I want to use portupgrade it still works, even if I  
previously upgraded straight from the ports tree (a la 'cd /usr/ports/ 
category/port && make && make install')


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