Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:55 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <20050625132955.6ebdad83.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:22:56 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> wrote: > I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports. > > What's the right way? > "portupgrade -arR ?" > or > "portupgrade -a" ? > > I hesitate and don't want to screw up my machine. do you want to upgrade all upgradable ports on your machine ? i use portmanager -u and/or portupgrade -arvy i've started using portmanager since i've read good things about it many times, and it does indeed handle dependencies better than portupgrade however, if portmanager ends up with errors i use e.g. portupgrade -rf postgrey* to correct those errors i like the combination of both
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