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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:31:28 -0800
From:      David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portmaster general questions and problems
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikaWqW2tUsNbwztOoH=3qqiFH4LQMoRP66U84Cy@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012301031060.57162@wonkity.com>
References:  <4d1c6625.MZdwaEoGnhqNcfOP%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012301031060.57162@wonkity.com>

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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> Those look backwards to me. =A0It's extremely rare for me to upgrade
> everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a por=
t
> and everything that depends on it (-r).

I've used -R before to correct situations where a freshly built port
misbehaves due to some of its dependencies being too old.  It's also
sometimes handy when there are ABI changes involved, as sometimes
happens with things like Perl and PHP.



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