On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:25 AM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Paul Macdonald via freebsd-ports < > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > I wonder if i'm not alone in wishing the perl maintainer would update > > UPDATING with the actual up to date commands to do an upgrade, instead > > of referring to an entry from many moons ago > > > > I'm not lazy, but if it was done once, this would actually save effort > > for 100 boxes for me, and i suspect save effort for 10's of thousands > > of people ( and avoid easy to make mistakes) > > > > Please take the time to make UPDATING correct ( and actually up to date) > > , it'll save many man hours! > > > > ( i do appreciate their time is valuable too, but there is a > > multiplication effect) > > > > > > sincere thanks > > > > Paul. > > > > It's also annoying that, if I followed the instructions in hte 3 year old > entry, I would have re-installed about 400 ports which would have taken > several hours. By removing the "-f" from the portmaster command reduced the > re-build to about 40 ports, most small p5- ports requiring less than a > minute each. Whole process took under an hour... likely about 15 minutes. > No idea why the portmaster command includes it. portmaster is smart enough > to figure it out correctly and not re-install a bunch of ports that don't > need it.
Nearly all committers use poudriere, so we rely on your input for legacy tool instructions. If the commands should be different, please run it through s...@freebsd.org (the portmaster maintainer) and give us the correct commands. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
