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Hi,

How do I use freebsd ports to upgrade packages that are already
installed on the system? I am not after the apt-get dist-upgrade
functionality, but just individual updates.

I found that if I do make && make install clean, it will simply install
the new package, and I will end up with two same packages but different
versions. Even worse is that, if I decide to remove the old version
package, it will also remove the files shared between both versions,
leaving the new version is not usable either.

Regards,

Shao.

/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade is the tool you're looking for.  Also,
you don't need to make && make install clean as a simple make install
clean would suffice (the process should stop if it encounters an error).

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