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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:00:07 -0800, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

>> On another note: You should learn more about portupgrade, it's in
>> sysutils/portupgrade. Search for 'portupgrade' in google and you should
>> get a lot of very good articles about it in the first page of result.
>
> thanks for the pointer, but i have been using the portupgrade stuff
> for a couple of years.
>
> there seem to be delicate issues with dependencies which
>   portsdb -Uu

This one is not need for the dependencies. It's only useful for the search 
and portversion.

>   pkgdb -u
>   pkgdb -Ff
> just don't handle automagically.

I usually do this:

pkgdb -F
portupgrade -ra

It's very rare for me to get the problem unless some apps need rebuild, 
then I have to tell portupgrade what to rebuild everything that depend on.

Cheers,
Mezz

> randy


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