Portmanager
Portmanager is like Portupgrade but better for quite a few reasons. One of which is when updating everything it handles the whole updating process much smoother.
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Updating All Ports
CAUTION: Please read the /usr/ports/UPDATING before attempting this. At least check the ports that you really need will upgrade without a problem.
To upgrade enter:
# portmanager -u -l
This keeps a log in the /var/log/portmanager.log file.
When resuming enter:
# portmanager -u -l --resume
You may need to run it a few times. Refer to the log and search for any ports which did not fetch and you will have to go and download those and put them in /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Then you can resume. There might even be some ports that have errors when compiling, it maybe best to go and upgrade these manually.
Listing Ports
# portmanager -s
Listing Ports which require updating
# portmanager -s | grep OLD
External Links
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/07/10/annoyances-and-workarounds/
