Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:28:53 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <42BE9175.1090101@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > > >>It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from >>ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. > > > On toy systems, maybe. I've got 654 ports installed on the machine I'm typing > this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to selectively upgrade > a few of them rather than starting over from scratch. I think you overlooked one important thing in the original post, and in my post as well: We are talking about upgrading the entire system, not just a few ports. Upgrading a few ports is faster using portupgrade, yes. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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