Portupgrade -af question

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 27 14:18:59 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:07:45PM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> I'm also curious as to why you just do not use /etc/libmap.conf, 
> instead of rebuilding all installed packages, that would be even 
> faster.

Its a hack that people forget about and later get bitten by it.

Kris Kennaway has just recently built new packages for 5-stable and
6-current.  There is no reason not to just use those (portupgrade -PP)
and get any library issues dealt with properly.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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