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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:01:58 +0100
From:      Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade -arR
Message-ID:  <20031112020158.GC3705@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200311111824.31778.racerx@makeworld.com>
References:  <20031111173315.GA30896@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <200311112039.21752.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <200311111824.31778.racerx@makeworld.com>

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:24:31PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:39 pm, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, William O'Higgins wrote:
> > > Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through:
> > >
> > > portupgrade -arR
> >
> > Try the -n switch (ie. portupgrade -narR), this will show which ports will
> > be upgraded without doing so.
> >
> 
> The great thing about this, is once you have done this for the 1st time (as 
> you have) and if you continue to update your ports tree (perhaps on a nightly 
> basis) you can run portupgrade daily, and the time needed is sooo much 
> shorter.
> 
> On a personal note - I do update my ports nightly, then run portgrade -arR 
> daily.  I don't think it runs more then 10 mins on any day.
> 
> Welcome to the world of maintaining your ports!

Do you happen to run apache and php4? I had trouble with these two.
One didn't need to be updated and the other did. The result was that
apache didn't wan't to load php4. I had to fore the compilation of the
other port.

--
Alex



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