On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 +0000 (UTC)
Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 

> > You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld,
> > buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to
> > recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version
> > clashes.  Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to
> > update them piecemeal can lead to misery.
> 
> I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall
> and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr).
>


That wont do anything useful as there is nothing for the -r to work
with after a base-system upgrade.

The best way to upgrade all ports with portupgrade is to do it by
datestamp like this:

portupgrade -f '<2007-05-18 14:00'

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