From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 18:53:47 2004 Return-Path: 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 BAD9D16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:53:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E62D43D1F for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:53:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A835C46953 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:53:46 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: GxUZUHTc1xc7Hp0VbuFd7w 1104000824 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-42-222.access.uk.tiscali.com [80.41.42.222]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C6D2553F for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:53:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <41CC8FFC.2030009@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41CC8FFC.2030009@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412251853.45210.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:53:47 -0000 On Friday 24 December 2004 21:54, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. > > This is my first experience using portupgrade. > > I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. > It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, > 16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake > and png. > > I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times You dont need the -N switch, it's only used for new port installations, not upgrades. Using it carelessly is a bit dangerous, you may find youself installing ports you don't want.