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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:05:38 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade upgrade procedure
Message-ID:  <44E914F2.8020203@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060821020038.GP29923@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060821020038.GP29923@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be
>
> portupgrade -R <package>
>
> instead of 
>
> portupgrade -r <package> ?
>
> If -R is "Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well."
> isn't it more important to rebuild the packages that depend on the package
> being rebuilt, ala -r?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>   
I use portupgrade -rRa myself, which has served me well when upgrading 
the ports on my system.
-Garrett



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