by Joshua Brauer on November 17, 2004
Red Antiqua has a good summary of doing FreeBSD portupgrades.
Here's the meat for posterity:
FreeBSD portupgrade
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This is a quick tutorial how to update your FreeBSD ports collection using portupgrade.
First time - includes installing the needed tools:
# Install "text mode" cvsup
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make install clean
# Synchronize your ports collection
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
# Install portupgrade
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
make install clean
# Update the ports database
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
# List the installed ports which need upgrading
/usr/local/sbin/portversion -l "<"
# Upgrade the installed ports
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -arR
# Run
# /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -F
# if you are prompted to.
# Run
# /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -fu
# if everything goes wrong.Just upgrading ports - assumes that cvsup-without-gui and portupgrade already are installed:
# Synchronize your ports collection
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
# Update the ports database
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
# List the installed ports which need upgrading
/usr/local/sbin/portversion -l "<"
# Upgrade the installed ports
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -arR
# Run
# /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -F
# if you are prompted to.
# Run
# /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -fu
# if everything goes wrong.