updating ports

[Axel Keuchel]

Hi there,

first of all, you know that everyone is encouraged to use the 
pre-compiled binary packages?

Please read: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgVsPorts

If you are using ports because you need an application that can't be 
provided as a binary package, please read this:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports

Concerning updating ports from -release to -stable you want to read this:

http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html

and you will like this:

http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#EXAMPLE

please look at least at the lines following the sentence: "Here is how 
someone using anoncvs regularly would update his source tree: [...]"

There is explained how to upgrade the ports.

Hope it helps;-)!


Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For updating ports to stable I guess
>
> #cd /usr/ports
> #make update
>
> is the way to go right?
>
> I guess it will only update installed packages and not install new packages?
>
> Thanks
>
> --Siju
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