A portupgrade question

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Apr 24 20:29:49 UTC 2006


RW wrote:

>On Monday 24 April 2006 12:50, Richard Collyer wrote:
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>>On Mon, April 24, 2006 12:16 pm, Ian Moore wrote:
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>>>On Monday 24 April 2006 20:43, Ian Moore wrote:
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>>>>Hi, I've got a question about portupgrade and something that's happened
>>>>with it a couple of times now. The last 2 times libgda has been
>>>>upgraded,
>>>>I've run portupgrade -a to upgrade a bunch of ports, including libgda.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
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>>>>
>>I always use portupgrade -aR to make sure dependencies are done. However
>>with mysql I find that portupgrade is not the best.
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> -a,   -ra,     -Ra and -RrA  all do *exactly*  the same thing
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>
Not true. -a is for all, -r is recursive, -R is upper recursive, and -A 
is not even valid given the syntax above...
All I can say is, "RTFM": portupgrade(1).

-Garrett



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