How are ports built now

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 8, 2014 at 2:50:53 PM -0400 Lowell Gilbert 
<freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks, but no, you misunderstand.  I just upgraded to servers to 8.4
>> and decided to adopt the new pkgng system at the same time.  Any time
>> I upgrade the OS, I always rebuild all ports.  I've been using
>> portmaster -ad to do that for a while now.
>
> Presumably it's a typo that you left out the "-f" option?
>
> Without that, you wouldn't have been rebuilding everything,
> and surely you would have noticed by now.
>
Yes, it's a typo.  I've been typing -ad for so long now trying to fix the 
remaining problems that I left that off.

I'm about to give up on the whole thing and switch to another OS.  This is 
beyond frustrating.

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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