Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:10:49 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reinstall all installed ports Message-ID: <3DC2C3A9.8000902@owt.com> References: <1035933528.57755.30.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> <20021029234843.GA4309@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:18:47AM +1100, Andrew Thomson wrote: > >>I just need to reinstall all my ports.. only 67 so I'll survive. >> >>However I'm just wondering what the best command would be. >> >>Given I'm doing all of them, I'm just curious if I need to worry about >>dependencies and reinstall in order type thing..or if I can just >>reinstall each package in any order.. > > > If you do them out of order the dependency information will be screwed > up. It's best to let portupgrade do it for you all at once and in order. > > >>Is portupgrade -af my best bet? > > > That's what I use. I tried this and learned something in the process. I actually used "-afp" so that I had packages that I could use to upgrade my slow machines using "-afP". There are some ports that you probably need to -x such as cvsup-mirror. You could probably just glob 'cvsup*'. Upgrading cvsup-mirror required manual intervention and the process of checking ownership on my ncvs directory seemed like it added an hour to the upgrade :). I also had to redo texmf.cnf on all of my machines. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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