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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, RW wrote:
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on what's in the database, but these are already covered by -a. New dependencies are built as a side-effect of building out-of-date ports - not through the -R option.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 Portmanager is a good way to bring your ports up-to-date, but it also rebuilds all ports that depend on out-of date ports.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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
This couldn't have come at a better time for me. I really boned things up about 40 hours ago. I was getting ready to leave and because I'd been doing some learning/experimenting with portupgrade on some held ports, I hit the wrong switch. I think it was portupgrade -arRF & now, about 40 hours later, shortly after returning home, we're still going, going, going....... Things are really in a mess & I've read the recent posts on this thread & can attest, sitting here for several hours, that "visits some ports many times" is an understatement. It's becoming rediculous & I'm wondering if, at some point, when clean is going after something else was just upgraded, if I can break out & go back with a simple portupgrade -arR & not screw things up to badly. Any help/feedback on this will be GREATLY appreciated. :) Denny White -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCwCs6y0Ty5RZE55oRAj6LAJ4wuENN2VAn5IlWUeRsPVps5nBgcQCgtsRr +YpDWuFkojneBoJkl3qk4Jk= =DrUN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
