From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 19:27:50 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 721C016A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:27:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8D043D49 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:27:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:27:49 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:27:49 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050625192748.GA30528@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk 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 19:27:50 -0000 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