Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:18:17 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <200506271318.18073.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:22, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports. > > What's the right way? > "portupgrade -arR ?" > or > "portupgrade -a" ? AFAIK there is no difference between the two; "-a" means upgrade all ports in the package database, "-Rr" means add in the dependencies and dependent ports based on what's in the database, but these are already covered by -a. New dependencies are built as a side-effect of building out-of-date ports - not through the -R option. There *is* a difference between -FRa and -Fa because -FR is translated into a "make checksum-recursive". Anyone who believes that portupgrade is slower than removing all port and reinstalling has probably been misled by watching portupgrade -FRa which runs "make checksum-recursive" for each installed port and so visits some ports many time. Portmanager is a good way to bring your ports up-to-date, but it also rebuilds all ports that depend on out-of date ports. It's a very slow process if you have a slow machine and most of your ports were up-to-date already, but try it for yourself. Portupgrade does a pretty good job if you follow UPDATING, and use the gnome script for major Gnome upgrades. If you want to force the rebuilding of all your ports then see pkg_glob(1) and portupgrade (1) for instructions on how to rebuild ports built after a given timestamp, as this gives you a restartable method.
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