Updating all ports

Marc G. Fournier freebsd at hub.org
Sun May 20 05:38:48 UTC 2007


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- --On Saturday, May 19, 2007 23:51:35 -0500 Jack Barnett
<jackbarnett at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>
> For /usr/ports I sync to just '.'  (dot).  Is that what I want?  (I want just
> 'stable' ports, nothing bleeding edge).
>
> for /usr/src I sync to: RELENG_6
>
> But my question, is there a way to go though and say "let's rebuild any port"
> that is newer (via sync) then one I current have?
>
> For example, if I build and install application FooBar-1.0.0 from the
> /usr/ports and the next week FooBar-1.0.7 is there a way to say "yea, let's
> rebuild this" instead of manually building it?  Or at the very least, give me
> a list of changes on which applications need to be manually built.

Install /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade ...

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