On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800 > Doug Hardie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a production >> system. It has a few ports that were installed back when 8.2 was >> new. However, I need to add pdftk. Pkg_add did that nicely. >> HOwever, it added version 1.44. The history for pdftk shows that a >> major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering that problem >> and need to upgrade. Portupgrade pdftk does nothing. It seems to >> decide that the latest version is 1.44. However, on a 9.2 system, I >> get a much higher version number. Is there any way to determine if >> 1.44 is the latest version that will run with 8.2 or is there another >> way I need to upgrade to ports files? Its my understanding that >> cvsup is no longer with us. > > how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is normal > as you kept the old ports tree. > > If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have to > update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will have to > update all installed ports too and then install the program you need. > > If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from > 8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful. Thats what I expected, but the question remains: how? Cvsup I believe is no longer with us and purtupgrade apparently doesn't do that either. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
