Re: Upgrading Production www Servers, MySQL Servers, etc, etc

From: Lewis Watson (lists_at_visionsix.com)
Date: 07/25/03

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    To: "Max Clark" <max.clark@media.net>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:23:22 -0500

    > Portupgrade compares the version of the port installed vs. the version
    of
    > the port available in the ports tree. So for it to be useful you must be
    > running cvsup and updating your ports collection. After you run cvsup
    you
    > can modify the makefile and then run portupgrade which would give you
    the
    > desired effect you are speaking about.

    Thanks! I misunderstood the way it works.
    Thanks again!
    Lewis

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