From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 11:36:48 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 ED68316A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:36:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (62-14-217-85.inversas.jazztel.es [62.14.217.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9218543D48 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:36:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.64] (unknown [192.168.0.64]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF10BFE63B; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:36:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:36:44 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= Organization: Locolomo.ORG User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050529) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Hoogendijk References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions 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 11:36:49 -0000 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. > portupgrade isn't suitable for upgrading the entire machine, even though you do recursive and Recursive. It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. I recommend writing down a list of apps you need to be happy, deinstall everything and then install those apps. Dependencies comes along fine, and then whatever remains can be installed as needed. Anyway, the worst that can happen is that you will screw up some user app's - ok this is bad - but your system won't require a reinstall :-) Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2