FreeBSD Handbook, upgrading ports incorrect with 10.0-RELEASE?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Apr 11 05:08:38 UTC 2014


On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Carl Johnson wrote:

> dgmm <freebsd01 at dgmm.net> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 10:52:57 Matthew Pherigo wrote:
>>> So you really want just to see the versions, and then you upgrade them by
>>> hand. In that case, the correct option would indeed be "pkg version".
>>
>> pkg version is so sloooooow
>>
>> I use portversion from portupgrade package.  It's much, much faster.
>>
>> portversion -l \<
>>
>> or
>>
>> portversion -L =
>
> I usually compare against the pkg repository with 'pkg version -RL=', or
> you could compare against the INDEX file with 'pkg version -IL='.

For portmaster:

portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'

Probably not as fast as the portupgrade version, but without the 
overhead.


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