Upgrading packages in FreeBSD 6.2

spydrmn · 05-30-2007, 03:23 PM

Hi All,

I have only been reading about FreeBSD I haven't upgraded anything as of yet.

When I upgrade my system, using make world...etc, I know anything installed by the ports system will be upgraded/rebuilt, but what about the packages?

I installed Xorg and KDE as packages using `pkg_add -r` (honestly because I didn't want to wait forever to get a GUI up), and am just curious if they will be upgraded whenever a new release of them arrives?

Oh, if you need version specific I'm using FreeBSD 6.2

Spydr

frob23 · 05-31-2007, 10:54 AM

No, they will not be upgraded along with the base system. You should install something like portupgrade and use that to upgrade the ports (you will need the ports tree installed)... it can use packages if they exist to cut down on building.

pkg_add -r portupgrade-devel

And you can upgrade them whenever you want. But, read /usr/ports/UPGRADING because we have just had a major change to Xorg 7.2 ... and you need to follow specific steps. It's pretty straight-forward.

spydrmn · 05-31-2007, 12:44 PM

Thanks frob23. That really helped.

I read about portupgrade and am installing it now. Can't wait to start using FreeBSD.

anomie · 05-31-2007, 12:47 PM

If you haven't already, be sure to read chapter 4 of the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ook/ports.html