From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 21:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DD014CAD for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA27942; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:40:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ray) Message-Id: <199911150540.AAA27942@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:40:15 -0500 (EST) From: Ray Kohler Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu Subject: Re: re-compiling ports after cvsup To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <382F993A.43E6F67D@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Nov, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Is there one command that will rebuild ALL the ports without installing > them? Something similar to 'make buildworld', only for the ports > collection? Go to the top level of the ports collection (/usr/ports) and run "make" with no arguments. This will build all of them without installing them also. The handbook has a good deal on this. > Also, when trying the new version of a port, even though > the package may have a different name, won't the binary have the same > name and overwrite the older version? Yes, but the idea is to try the new version in the build directory (without installing it). Don't run make install until you think it's a good idea. -- Ray Kohler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message