How to mass recompile broken packages?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 29 17:59:33 UTC 2010


On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine.
> 
> I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems
> not successful.
> 
> The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the
> upgraded package were not recompiled.

I'm guessing you told portmanager to update a specific package. In
that case  it will just update that package and what it depends on.

The normal way to use  portmanager is to let it update everything. If
you want to update piecemeal I would suggest using something else. 


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