New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:45:10 -0800
Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > An option to update all outdated ports on the system would be nice.
> 
> This is done too now, although it turned out to be a lot harder than I 
> expected. It required redoing how some of the internal stuff worked, but in 
> the end it made the whole script better, so I'm glad I pursued this. As an 
> extra bonus you can now do 'portmaster -af' and it will force an update of 
> all ports on your system, starting with the leaves.

"Leafes" as in "those ports which no other ports depends upon"? If yes:
are you sure this is a good idea? Wouldn't you think a better approach
would be to start with those ports, which depend upon no other port (=
"root" ports in my terminology)?

Bye,
Alexander.

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