How to run massive portmaster update without repeated interruptions?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy
<dave-lists-freebsd-ports at weller-fahy.com> wrote:
> * Thomas Mueller <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net> [2012-10-26 22:29 -0400]:
>> ===>>> Delete gstreamer-0.10.35.tar.bz2? y/n [n]
>>
>> How do I avoid this inefficiency?
>
> Try the following (from my portmaster.rc file):
>
> ALWAYS_SCRUB_DISTFILES=dopt
>
> Regards,
> --
> dave [ please don't CC me ]

I'm on the DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt side as the wrong files will get
deleted on occasion.  I suggest running 'portmaster --clean-disfiles'.
It is much better at picking out the files you want to delete.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com