upgrading portupgrade

Fraser Tweedale frase at frase.id.au
Wed Jul 2 06:39:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:21:59AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> In order to upgrade portupgrade, is it enough to run make, make install 
> && make clean?
> 
> I am not familiar with make but something tells me I won't be able to 
> upgrade portupgrade by means of portupgrade ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Zbigniew Szalbot
> www.LCWords.com

Upgrading portupgrade via portupgrade has always worked for me.

If you're paranoid though, you can always do:

	cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
	make && make deinstall && make reinstall
	
...which is the essence of what portupgrade does anyway, minus all the 
extra stuff ;)

frase
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