Portupgrade status

Jamie Paul Griffin jamie at gnix.co.uk
Tue Jan 4 01:25:32 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:51:48PM -0500, illoai at gmail.com wrote:

> No, the -R flag in portmaster tells it to not rebuild
> ports taht have already been built on this run (I
> believe from reading man portmaster).  The -R
> flag in portupgrade rebuilds the ports on which
> the named port depends

Indeed, this -R option is useful. Up-to-now i've not used anything else other than portupgrade but i'll have a look over the man pages of portmaster, etc.; i'll probably continue to use portupgrade for a while though.

	jamie


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