portupgrade upgrade procedure

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Aug 21 02:05:33 UTC 2006


Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be
>
> portupgrade -R <package>
>
> instead of 
>
> portupgrade -r <package> ?
>
> If -R is "Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well."
> isn't it more important to rebuild the packages that depend on the package
> being rebuilt, ala -r?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>   
I use portupgrade -rRa myself, which has served me well when upgrading 
the ports on my system.
-Garrett


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