Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:28:24 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info> Subject: Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion Message-ID: <4A932218.7050503@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090824204645.681881CC09@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090824204645.681881CC09@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Just in case someone reads this and tries 'portupgrade -af', it also
> will re-build all installed ports, whether they need upgrading. This is
> the command to re-build ALL ports when the library versions get bumped
> (as they did recently for 8.0BETA).
>
> To just update the ports that need updating, the command is 'portupgrade
> -a', probably the same as in portmaster.
Yeah, I should have been more clear. '-af' will do the same thing in
both tools. Where it gets interesting is that when specifying
individual ports on the command line portmaster does by default what
'portupgrade -f' does.
> In either case (portupgrade or portmaster), read the man pages BEFORE
> shooting yourself in the foot. Both can certainly do that.
Agreed. :)
Doug
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