From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 30 00:07:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8484816A400 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:07:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmc20@xxiii.com) Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D47D13C480 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:07:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmc20@xxiii.com) Received: from ibm61aec.bellsouth.net ([68.209.177.221]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070630000753.ITAV2727.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm61aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:07:53 -0400 Received: from wcox.bellsouth.net ([68.209.177.221]) by ibm61aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070630000753.TQUO29715.ibm61aec.bellsouth.net@wcox.bellsouth.net>; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:07:53 -0400 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20070629200108.01e12e00@mailsvr.xxiii.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:07:52 -0400 To: "Michael P. Soulier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: r17fbsd@xxiii.com In-Reply-To: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20070629231452.GK18911@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: running portupgrade -a 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, 30 Jun 2007 00:07:55 -0000 At 07:14 PM 6/29/2007, you wrote: >So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't >checked for issues >for your system? I just started using portupgrade recently, and no, I would NOT let it rip with the --all option. I find it's most useful for the libraries and required packages that don't need any compile-time options nor config files. Those sorta things I install from packages anyway. So I started with a list of stuff that required compile time control and/or configuration. "ls /var/db/ports" and pkg-info are a good start... Then run "portupgrade -aiP" -i asks for confirmation on each, and -P tries to get it from packages (binary) rather than ports. Let that update all the "background" junk. Than go back and research and possibly manually remake & install the primary apps (eg: apache, samba, squid, in my case.) HTH, -RW