massive ports update

Rob bitabyss at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 19:59:57 UTC 2008


Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
> 	I'm wondering just how many ports the author of that statement
> has. I have a few to say the least. Actually a few hundred. Ok, well,
> 1102 to be a bit more specific.... Blow away and re-install 1102 ports?

I think he meant the ports tree, not necessarily the installed ports.  I 
use portsnap (normally much quicker than the various CVS methods) and if 
I've let it go a few months, it's quicker to blow the whole thing away 
and reload from scratch:

rm -r /var/db/portsnap
rm -r /usr/ports
portsnap fetch extract

    -R


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