portupgrade time, xorg ports

[Jay O'Brien]

RW wrote:
> On Friday 24 December 2004 21:54, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM.
>>
>>This is my first experience using portupgrade.
>>
>>I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v.
>>It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those,
>>16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake
>>and png.
>>
>>I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times
> 
> 
> You dont need the -N switch, it's only used for new port installations, not 
> upgrades. Using it carelessly is a bit dangerous, you may find youself 
> installing ports you don't want.


Thanks, I wasn't sure about that.  I saw an example that used -N 
and followed it.  I'm not clear on what -N really does, but for 
now I just won't use it!

Jay