Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:13:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2 Message-ID: <20070518151014.I47723@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <20070518103245.1730b836@localhost> References: <20070516182846.C34584@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <464BCE1A.4020400@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20070517102831.O61920@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <20070518141045.490c80be@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20070518132807.Q17258@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <20070518103245.1730b836@localhost>
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On Fri, 18 May 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 +0000 (UTC) > Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote: > >> What about: >> >> portupgrade -afR >> >> Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one >> being reinstalled? > > If you wanted, you could use: > > portmanager -u -l -f > > That will update and rebuild your entire existing ports system. Be > prepared, it could take awhile depending upon what you have installed. Thanks for the alternate method. There are 138 ports installed. At least that's the number reported back from 'pkg_info | wc -l'. I'm speculating it will take less than four hours. The server has four processors and lots of memory.
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