Port/Package Upgrade Question

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:10 -0700 Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
> I have a number of systems that I need to upgrade to 9.3.  I have one
> system that is the development/test system.  Its already at 9.3 and it
> has a number of ports/packages installed that need to be on the
> production systems.  In the past I have built packages for each in
> /usr/ports/packages/All and then just mounted that directory via NFS
> on the production machines and used pkg_add to install them on the
> production machines.
> 
> Some of these are packages in that they use the default configuration.
> Unfortunately, some of them have to be compiled via the ports system
> as they use non-standard options.  I have made a package for each of
> them.
> 
> None of the production systems have pkg on them.  They all use the
> old packages stuff.  I suspect I will first need to convert them over
> to the pkg system.  Thats not a big deal as its a fairly quick process.
> However, how do I then upgrade the ports/packages from the test system?
> The production systems can't be used to recompile the ports as that
> would involve too much down time.

Same as before just "pkg add" instead of "pkg_add".  See man pkg-add
for more details.