portupgrade a list of ports

noodlefling

noodlefling

So, whenever I do a portupgrade -caf, there is always a long list of ports that don't successfully update on the first pass, I assume due to the order of the upgrades.

I could just run the same command again, but if I don't want it to take literally all day, I will go about doing the ports that didn't get upgraded one at a time.

Is there a better trick than doing this manually? Can I feed it a list and then get the same feedback I get when I do a portupgrade -caf

I don't want to just have it run forever and then pick through a super-long log, I like the nice report you get when you do a full update and for whatever reason, it couldn't handle some ports.

Any suggestions?
 
Testing now, I think my problem was a lack of feedback upon success, so I wasn't sure that I was getting a proper report. If you just feed all the ports you want to upgrade like this
Code: 
portupgrade -f port1 port2 port3 port4
you'll get a complaint if something doesn't work.

I've been using a vulnerable port with no available update as a test, throwing it into the mix of ports to be upgraded to make sure it's mentioned at the end of the run, and it is. So I can safely assume all the other ports worked.

So, that's the solution. I can go and have lunch and come back to a proper report without sitting at the desk going port by port, making my keyboard all greasy with lunch fingers. I just have to be confident that no news is good news, which what I do when I do a comprehensive rebuild, so it's no more of a leap of faith than that.

The hardest part is the text-slinging to turn the failure report into a useful list of parameters. We'll see how many times I do it manually before I break down and grep and awk my way to something easier.

At least I answered my own stupid question. Perhaps when I run into this again years from now and I've forgotten the answer, I'll google this and help myself.
 
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I think you can pkg version -IvL "=" | pkg upgrade or you can redirect it if pipe doesn't work... I used to copy to a local file or read directly from index somehow a long time ago, when I wrote a custom script to do that with ports tree.
 
Why are you rebuilding all ports?

-f options is only needed if you are doing major version upgrade between FreeBSD releases or if you want to reinstall/rebuild port. If you are only want to update your ports then the following is enough

portsnap auto
portupgrade -ra
 
Never just blindly run portupgrade -ra or portupgrade -a. Always, yes, always, read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Sometimes you need to rename or remove certain deprecated ports first, or build things in a specific order.
 
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