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using make to upgrade your ports
19 November 1999
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Since this article was written the portupgrade tool was written. I think you should use that tool. This article shows an easy way to upgrade your ports. See also Ports. |
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Ports? What are ports?
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| If you're reading this and you don't know what a port is, then you shouldn't be reading this. I suggest you read http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ before you proceed. |
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Using make
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I found out about this tip from IRC. I often hang out on the #FreeBSD channel on
the Undernet IRC network (http://www.undernet.org/)
and something mentioned that you can upgrade your ports with the following commands:# cd /usr/src # make update So I rushed off to try this. It failed with: [root@ducky:/usr/src] # make update make: don't know how to make update. Stop Well. Let's look at /etc/make.conf. Here's what you find: # # # CVSup update flags. Edit SUPFILE settings to reflect whichever # distribution file(s) you use on your site (see # /usr/share/examples/cvsup/README for more nformation on CVSup and # these files). To use, do "make update" in /usr/src. # #SUP_UPDATE= yes # #SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup #SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 -z #SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile #SUPFILE1= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/secure-supfile #SUPFILE2= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Hmmm, this looks pretty easy to me. When I first tried Updating the ports collection, I created a supfile for my ports. So I changed the above entries to meet my requirements: SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 -z SUPFILE= /home/ports-supfile Then I did the make again: # cd /usr/src # make update Well, that seemed to work. Great! A bit easier to do than the instructions under Updating the ports collection but uses the same process. |