From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 20:15:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6005B1065687 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2CD8FC15 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Kl86a-000KkN-0N for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:15:28 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:15:20 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Subject: Updating and Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:15:29 -0000 Hi all, I have heard people chattering occasionally about /etc/make.conf. In a few days, I will be updating from 6.2, and 6.3, to RELENGE_6_3 and am curious how I can use / modufy /etc/make.conf so that I dont need to install all my ports again. Which leads to the question: I just installed /usr/ports/archivers/unzip onto all the servers, when I update to RELENG_6_3, will I need to reinstall them all over again? Which leads back to the original question, can I modify /etc/make.conf so that all ports currenly install are re installed? -Grant