Portupgrade -af question

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Zoltan Frombach wrote:

>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:35:16PM -0700, Zoltan Frombach typed:
>>> 8. recompile the few ports that needs special options and/or local 
>>> patching
>> 
>> You can omit step 8 by editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. e.g.
>> 
>>  MAKE_ARGS = {
>>        'lang/perl5.8' => 'WITH_THREADS=yes',
>>  }
>
> In fact, I do have those compile options set in my 
> /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf file. But are you sure that portupgrade will use 
> those even when called with the -P flag ( eg: portupgrade -af -P )? If it is 
> true then of course step 8 can be eliminated. Can anyone confirm this?

Step 8 is required, because of the possibility of a binary package upgrade 
with -P.

Regards,
Andy

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