running portupgrade -a

[r17fbsd at xxiii.com]

At 07:14 PM 6/29/2007, you wrote:
>So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't 
>checked for issues
>for your system?

I just started using portupgrade recently, and no, I would NOT let it 
rip with the --all option.

I find it's most useful for the libraries and required packages that 
don't need any compile-time options nor config files.  Those sorta 
things I install from packages anyway.  So I started with a list of 
stuff that required compile time control and/or configuration. "ls 
/var/db/ports" and pkg-info are a good start...  Then run 
"portupgrade -aiP"  -i asks for confirmation on each, and -P tries to 
get it from packages (binary) rather than ports.  Let that update all 
the "background" junk.

Than go back and research and possibly manually remake & install the 
primary apps (eg:  apache, samba, squid, in my case.)

    HTH, -RW