portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm looking at using portmaster to rebuild my ports collection and I'm wondering if using the command: portmaster -afv --no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all (-a - check all ports, update as necessary, -f - always rebuild ports, -v - verbose output, --no-confirm - do not ask the user to

Re: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:57:14 -0800 Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think that's a little too much automation, or do you think that would be pretty safe to run without screwing things up? I think portmaster's documentation explicitly advises against using -af to rebuild all ports. See

Re: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Hmmm...I'll check that out Bruce. I saw the command listed on: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html but it doesn't give any cautions against using it. Thank you, Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list