portmaster argument question

[RW]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:56:34 -0400
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>    just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to
> gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster
> -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is
> interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow
> skipping ports already up to date.

AFAIK all the ports that depend on gettext were version-bumped, so it's
not essential to force the upgrade. In other words you can just update
those ports that are still out-of-date -just like any other update.