upgrading all ports
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list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Mon Jun 27 12:18:21 GMT 2005
On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:22, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports.
>
> What's the right way?
> "portupgrade -arR ?"
> or
> "portupgrade -a" ?
AFAIK there is no difference between the two; "-a" means upgrade all ports in
the package database, "-Rr" means add in the dependencies and dependent ports
based on what's in the database, but these are already covered by -a. New
dependencies are built as a side-effect of building out-of-date ports - not
through the -R option.
There *is* a difference between -FRa and -Fa because -FR is translated into a
"make checksum-recursive". Anyone who believes that portupgrade is slower
than removing all port and reinstalling has probably been misled by watching
portupgrade -FRa which runs "make checksum-recursive" for each installed port
and so visits some ports many time.
Portmanager is a good way to bring your ports up-to-date, but it also rebuilds
all ports that depend on out-of date ports. It's a very slow process if you
have a slow machine and most of your ports were up-to-date already, but try
it for yourself.
Portupgrade does a pretty good job if you follow UPDATING, and use the gnome
script for major Gnome upgrades.
If you want to force the rebuilding of all your ports then see pkg_glob(1) and
portupgrade (1) for instructions on how to rebuild ports built after a given
timestamp, as this gives you a restartable method.
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