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Update Question 7.7:

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- Remove outdated text about port upgrading
- Add a reference to the FreeBSD Handbook about port handling (Section 4.5.4)

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<para>FreeBSD does not include a port upgrading tool, but it
does have some tools to make the upgrade process somewhat
easier. You can also install additional tools to simplify
port handling.</para>
<para>The &man.pkg.version.1; command can generate a script
that will update installed ports to the latest version in
the ports tree.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_version -c &gt; <replaceable>/tmp/myscript</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>The output script <emphasis>must</emphasis> be edited by
hand before you use it. Recent versions of
&man.pkg.version.1; force this by inserting an
&man.exit.1; at the beginning of the script.</para>
<para>You should save the output of the script, as it will note
packages that depend on the one that has been updated. These
may or may not need to be updated as well. The usual case where
they need to be updated is that a shared library has changed
version numbers, so the ports that used that library need to be
rebuilt to use the new version.</para>
<note>
<para>Beginning with FreeBSD 5.0 (and higher revisions),
&man.pkg.version.1; no longer supports the
<option>-c</option> option.</para>
</note>
<para>If you have the disk space, you can use the
<command>portupgrade</command> tool to automate all of
this. <command>portupgrade</command> includes various
tools to simplify package handling. It is available under
<filename role="package">ports-mgmt/portupgrade</filename>.
Since it is written in Ruby,
<command>portupgrade</command> is an unlikely candidate for
integration with the main FreeBSD tree. That should not
stop anyone from using it, however.</para>
<para>If your system is up full time, the &man.periodic.8; system
can be used to generate a weekly list of ports that might need
updating by setting
<literal>weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"</literal> in
<filename>/etc/periodic.conf</filename>.</para>
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port handling, see the
<ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/ports-using.html">Upgrading Ports</ulink>
section in the FreeBSD Handbook.</para>
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