From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 13 07:19:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA69106564A for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366A98FC17 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,177,1238972400"; d="scan'208";a="89348854" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 13 Apr 2009 07:50:33 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C1B785F1A; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:49:12 +0100 (BST) To: Gary Kline References: <20090413055422.GA18063@thought.org> Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Solemnity: Monday in the Octave of Easter, A.D. 2009 From: Glyn Millington Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:49:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090413055422.GA18063@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sun\, 12 Apr 2009 22\:54\:29 -0700") Message-ID: <86prfhgiaf.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: is there a way to upgrade Only ports that need it?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:19:07 -0000 Gary Kline writes: > is there any way t o not upgrade "all installed ports", but only > those that are not current? > > tired of having my main box grinding away for endless days.... portupgrade -akOP does the trick here. The time taken depends in large part on how many ports nned to be upgraded. If you keep your ports up to date regularly and often, the periods of endless grinding wil be reduced. atb Glyn