Request for buildworld clarification

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 09/10/14 20:08, Dave Babb wrote:
> Good Afternoon All,
> 
> 
> I am requesting a clarification on make buildworld. I am junior with
> FreeBSD (< 8 months)...and I am getting confused with Gentoo's
> definition of build world, and FreeBSD's.
> 
> Under Gentoo, when you rebuilt your world, everything got rebuilt. Every
> package that you had installed in your system including the base.
> 
> Am I understanding that in FreeBSD this is a two step process. "make
> buildworld" simply rebuilds the base system from source. Then to rebuild
> your ports....I understand that I need to call "portmaster -af"...Am I
> correct, or is their a different set of switches I need to pass to
> portmaster to tell it to rebuild every installed port?
> 

Good afternoon,

Start here:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

Cheers,