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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