A possibly odd upgrade question

[Jerry]

On Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:05 +0100
Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> articulated:

> I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's
> simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports
> issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so
> haven't used it for a year or so.
> 
> If you do use portmanager there are a few tricks you can do to make
> it effectively unattended.
> 
> However, doesn't -u -f mean rebuild all dependencies of all ports? In 
> which case wouldn't it be just as effective and cleaner for the OP to 
> nuke the lot and rebuild, particularly in view of the retasked
> purpose.

Yes, from the man pages it states it will rebuild all packages and their
dependencies. I simply include the "l" so he would have a log file
available if something did go wrong.

In any case, I thought it might save him some trouble rebuilding his
system. There are some ports; however, that will not build correctly
unless the program is first removed from the system. Obviously not a
friendly concept; however, a reality. The OP would have to remove them
first I suppose before doing a force rebuild. Maybe just doing a
"pkg_delete -adv" would be a better idea.

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Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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