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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 00:45:55 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org>
Cc:        jackbarnett@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating all ports
Message-ID:  <464FFCB3.6070804@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C01140D1F9ED77AE3000A4AB@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <464FD3D7.5050508@gmail.com> <C01140D1F9ED77AE3000A4AB@ganymede.hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Saturday, May 19, 2007 23:51:35 -0500 Jack Barnett
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>> For /usr/ports I sync to just '.'  (dot).  Is that what I want?  (I want just
>> 'stable' ports, nothing bleeding edge).
>>
>> for /usr/src I sync to: RELENG_6
>>
>> But my question, is there a way to go though and say "let's rebuild any port"
>> that is newer (via sync) then one I current have?
>>
>> For example, if I build and install application FooBar-1.0.0 from the
>> /usr/ports and the next week FooBar-1.0.7 is there a way to say "yea, let's
>> rebuild this" instead of manually building it?  Or at the very least, give me
>> a list of changes on which applications need to be manually built.
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> Install /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade ...
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That will take care of 95% of all cases, but isn't intelligent enough to 
do things properly 5% of the time (packages move, dependencies change, etc).

-Garrett



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