From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 11:30:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D99A916A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:30:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8F643D49 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:30:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:10003 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dm8rL-0009Z6-92; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:30:03 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFFA15437E; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DC558CBCF; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:55 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: Dick Hoogendijk Message-Id: <20050625132955.6ebdad83.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading all ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:30:09 -0000 On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:22:56 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk 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