{"id":21,"date":"2004-07-21T23:06:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-08-23T19:31:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T18:31:43","slug":"keeping-installed-packages-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/2004\/07\/keeping-installed-packages-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping installed packages up-to-date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsddiary.org\/\">FreeBSDDiary<\/a> article explains how to keep your installed packages from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/ports\/\">ports<\/a> up-to-date. <a title=\"Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsddiary.org\/portupgrade.php\">&#8220;The FreeBSD Diary&#8212;Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I ran pkgdb -F I got some Stale Dependencies I could not solve since somehow installed packages like ImageMagick depended on fontconfig that was not installed. Have no idea how I have ended up in that situation.<\/p>\n<p>But reading on I found information on the pkgdb man-page that said one should run portsdb -Uu after doing a cvsup on the ports tree. I have cvsuped my ports tree several times without running it so now I&#8217;m doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Short summary:<br \/>\ncvsup -g -L 2 .\/ports-supfile<br \/>\nportsdb -Uu<br \/>\npkgdb -F<br \/>\nportupgrade -arp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This FreeBSDDiary article explains how to keep your installed packages from ports up-to-date. &#8220;The FreeBSD Diary&#8212;Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them!&#8221; When I ran pkgdb -F I got some Stale Dependencies I could not solve since somehow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/2004\/07\/keeping-installed-packages-up-to-date\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/freebsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}