On 25 Jun Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > > > It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from > > ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. > > On toy systems, maybe. I've got 654 ports installed on the machine > I'm typing this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to > selectively upgrade a few of them rather than starting over from > scratch.
I agree. Normally I go over usr/ports/UPDATING and handle the 'problem' cases. After that I do parts, like portupgrade -rR 'XFree86*', etc.. Never a problem. Sometimes I forget to use the -m BATCH=yes option and that's no fun. Options I really want are in my pkgtools.conf zo I don't need the selection screens.. I see no harm in using this -m switch like someone else wrote in this list. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"