Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:58:03 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports Message-ID: <41CDC64B.5030303@att.net> In-Reply-To: <200412251853.45210.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <41CC8FFC.2030009@att.net> <200412251853.45210.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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RW wrote: > 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. Thanks, I wasn't sure about that. I saw an example that used -N and followed it. I'm not clear on what -N really does, but for now I just won't use it! Jay
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