From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 21 01:44:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE1E106564A for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:44:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A658FC1F for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so828766ewy.43 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dt+K8eyBQlJWPt28F1F3+/8IezyaRzj3VDNmnZKukJs=; b=xTFtoBjkRyimXWPAe++oOb2XOuF72Hbot+l50M/bw9JDLtrsPccgPH6TkfFTzHDDhg YjaL4XmnGqNmJakBxndOkB6hDFlpm9I38zBslRDVB2wuxwjbBzK63d60uoU5cDiR1XN7 tSsACFFTegc1NWHfzjVz4OX+SM4KvP+WZk1ww= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fBUkLwFjdRJyKvAlAUktdTL+JkpfcY+bS+cT9WTx0tBQIC7tfN/h7xzfH/GFFgS5pW HKwd0efNiHq5Z6FaS0Il+z25Wx5dqrwaL9WavQX3c3oUxcZQh5jeAxnLQLEIfeDp8JJw 32s96MmyE8Aqs0VO0Pl1sMT6WZlwLw3chlDbk= Received: by 10.210.46.14 with SMTP id t14mr3306713ebt.57.1237599856153; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2945469eyg.5.2009.03.20.18.44.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:44:13 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090321014413.42ce80b2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20090319211530.GA27605@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <49C3D104.50307@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: portupdate xorg-server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:44:18 -0000 On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:00 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > But, I wonder what the most efficient way is to update ports. I > appreciate Adam's point about the fact that portupgrade (and > portmanager and portmaster) are ports themselves and are going to not > be as reliable as what is in base. IMO this doesn't make any sense. If portupgrade is failing on a port where manual "make install" works, then portupgrade simply has a bug. Any port upgrading tool belongs in a port, because it's more important that it responds to changes in the ports system than changes in the base system. As to upgrading piecemeal rather than with -a, I don't see how that helps, and it may actually make things worse by not building in dependency order.