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HowTo install portupgrade on FreeBSD 5.4

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Category: FreeBSD
Published on Friday, 27 January 2012 16:58
Written by John Sullivan

This article describes how to install portupgrade, a tool used to easily download and uograde any ports that you have installed in your FreeBSD computer.  It works with version 4.xx as well.

  • Log in as root
  • cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
  • Type ‘make install clean’
  • Type ‘vi /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/900.packageinfo’
    #!/bin/sh
    echo
    echo “Downloading Ports Collection via CVS”
    if SERVER=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup –Q –c uk,at,dk,fl,fr,de,ie,nl,no,se,ch`; then
    /usr/local/bin/cvsup –g –h $SERVER –L 1 –z /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile
    Echo “List out of date ports”
    /usr/sbin/pkg_version –v –L ‘=’
    exit $rc
  • Type ‘/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/900.packaginfo’
  • Type ‘rehash’
  • Type ‘portupgrade –ra’ – gettext needs updating at the least.