How to upgrade?

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi Dwayne

The easiest way is to setup poudriere to build a local repo -- poudriere is
smart enough to figure out what needs to be upgraded after you update your
portstree. -- It may seem daunting at first, but I guarantee makes your
life easier. [Maybe you also have success with synth, instead of poudriere,
but last time it failed, because it also seemed to rely on the category
Makefiles]. Make index fails, as the merge script 'kdemerge' does add new
ports to the category Makefiles.


I use the poudriere method here, and I haven't had any issues, which
weren't my own fault :P

Basically:
1) create a portstree for poudriere containing the ports+merged
plasma5-ports
2) create a poudriere jail corresponding to your system
3) poudriere -j<your jail from 2)> -p<your portstree from 1)> x11/kde5
poudriere will then go on, and build x11/kde5 upgrading/rebuilding/creating
packages for all that is required in the process.
4) setup a local pkg-repo configuration for said packages
5) use pkg
6) profit.

Afterwards, just updating the portstree, redoing step 3) and 5) will keep
your system up to date.



mfg Tobias






On 8 March 2017 at 20:33, Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk at ncf.ca> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> So when I built my latest FreeBSD box I decided to go with
> plasma-desktop and kf5. Imported the plasma5 branch from area51, merged
> it, went from there.
>
> Now my question is: how do I tell which plasma5 ports need to be
> updated? As far as portupgrade goes, the area51 ports pretty much don't
> exist. I tried to do a make index in /usr/ports after kdemerge, and it
> failed.
>
> Just wondering if someone's come up with a way to keep track...
>
> Thanks,
> Dwayne
>
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