amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2

[Duane Hill]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, RW wrote:

> On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>
>
>>> You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld,
>>> buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to
>>> recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version
>>> clashes.  Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to
>>> update them piecemeal can lead to misery.
>>
>> I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall
>> and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr).
>>
>
>
> That wont do anything useful as there is nothing for the -r to work
> with after a base-system upgrade.
>
> The best way to upgrade all ports with portupgrade is to do it by
> datestamp like this:
>
> portupgrade -f '<2007-05-18 14:00'

What about:

   portupgrade -afR

Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one 
being reinstalled?