portupgrade – Page 2 – Trond's place

The announced EOL of the old pkg_* tools is coming fast. Here are some notes from my experience on converting from the old /var/db/pkg structure to the new SQLite 3 based approach, pkg(ng).

I grew tired of handholding portupgrade because of the latter’s inability to handle new dependencies. The script below is the result of my frustration. The script is available for downloading at http://ximalas.info/~trond/create-zfs/canmount/upgrade-outdated-ports.sh.

Is it just me or does portupgrade 2.4.12,2 have issues detecting changes in a port’s dependencies, particularly added dependencies?

I upgraded Subversion 1.8.1 to 1.8.5 on some non-critical FreeBSD servers the other day. Normally I would run this command: portupgrade -fprv devel/subversion I noticed www/serf also needed updating, so this time I ran a command like: portupgrade -fprv www/serf

Today, I decided to upgrade PostgreSQL from 9.1.5 to 9.2.0 on one of my computers. Ironically, PostgreSQL 9.2.1 was released today, but until the FreeBSD ports hierarchy catches up, the most recent version available is 9.2.0, unless of course you want to do everything yourself.

When moving from one major FreeBSD branch to another, you are almost compelled to upgrade all of your installed FreeBSD ports. If you move from the RELENG_7 branch to RELENG_8, as an example, the old pty interface is deprecated, and ports such as screen (sysutils/screen) must be recompiled and reinstalled to take advantage of the […]

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Category: portupgrade

pkg2ng – some notes from my experience

Coping with portupgrade’s inability to handle new dependencies

portupgrade and issues with added dependencies

Trouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/scons

Upgrading PostgreSQL from 9.1.5 to 9.2.0

How to forcefully upgrade all your FreeBSD ports using portupgrade