Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:27:49 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <20050625192748.GA30528@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 25 Jun Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > > > It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from > > ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. > > On toy systems, maybe. I've got 654 ports installed on the machine > I'm typing this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to > selectively upgrade a few of them rather than starting over from > scratch. I agree. Normally I go over usr/ports/UPDATING and handle the 'problem' cases. After that I do parts, like portupgrade -rR 'XFree86*', etc.. Never a problem. Sometimes I forget to use the -m BATCH=yes option and that's no fun. Options I really want are in my pkgtools.conf zo I don't need the selection screens.. I see no harm in using this -m switch like someone else wrote in this list. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050625192748.GA30528>