> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:54:54 -0700 > From: Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > > hail, > > > > portmaster is great, but this is keeping me from using it.I want to fire a > > portmaster -af and let it there until its done. for every package it asks > > this. is ther any way to make it not ask ? delete and go ahead ? > > You really want to read the man page thoroughly before you begin using > portmaster. I've taken a lot of time to try and explain how it works > in the man page, and what your options are. In particular, you > probably do not really want to use the -f option on a regular basis > since that does not do what it does in portupgrade. In portmaster > using '-af' would rebuild all of your ports, not just the ones that > need upgrading. > > It sounds to me like what you're seeing is portmaster asking whether > or not you want to delete the distfiles after an upgrade. The easiest > way to deal with that is to use '-aD' and then when it's done use > either --clean-distfiles or --clean-distfiles-all. Once again, see the > man page for more information on those options.
Just in case someone reads this and tries 'portupgrade -af', it also will re-build all installed ports, whether they need upgrading. This is the command to re-build ALL ports when the library versions get bumped (as they did recently for 8.0BETA). To just update the ports that need updating, the command is 'portupgrade -a', probably the same as in portmaster. In either case (portupgrade or portmaster), read the man pages BEFORE shooting yourself in the foot. Both can certainly do that. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
