i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 20:57:58 UTC 2010


On 08/06/2010 04:52, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> Hello Sandra
> 
> I was in a similar situation. I found the following paramters very usefull:
> 
> portmaster -a -d --no-confirm
> 
> -a: Take all installed ports
> -d: Delete any dependicies

That's not what -d means. You would be better off with the option to not
delete any distfiles, along with occasionally running the standalone
feature to clean distfiles.


hth,

Doug

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