7.0 and 6.3

[Jay Chandler]

RW wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:01 -0700
> Jay Chandler <lists at sequestered.net> wrote:
> 
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:32:35 -0700
>>> Jay Chandler <lists at sequestered.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Johan Andersson wrote:
>>>>> On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>> Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you recommend?
>>>> portupgrade -afO
>>>>
>>> Personally I prefer 
>>>
>>> portupgrade -f '<2007-10-25 11:00'
>>>
>>> since it's restartable.
>> You don't have to throw the -O flag in there to keep various ports
>> from complaining?
> 
> 
> The point of -O is to have portupgrade save a few seconds by omitting 
> sanity-checking if pkgdb has already been run. It's not intended
> for hiding problems.

Okay, I'll buy that.
I just tried it, and it worked.  I distinctly remember a port 
(mailscanner-mrtg, but there are others) who choked on the fact that 
Apache1.3 isn't the same thing as Apache2.2 until I fed it the O flag...


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