Updating all ports

Erik Norgaard norgaard at locolomo.org
Sun May 20 10:24:11 UTC 2007


Jack Barnett wrote:
> For /usr/ports I sync to just '.'  (dot).  Is that what I want?  
> (I want just 'stable' ports, nothing bleeding edge).
> 
> for /usr/src I sync to: RELENG_6
> 
> But my question, is there a way to go though and say "let's rebuild any 
> port" that is newer (via sync) then one I current have?

You don't want to update only ports that are newer by date as some older 
ports may need to be rebuild to link to the newer version of dependencies.

cheers, Erik

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