Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 18:57:03 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Warren,
>
> Sorry to ask, but what does one run after we run
> # portmaster -na
>
> I have cleared all questions and am ready to update, what magical
> command will do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 May 2011, Polytropon wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe it's much better if you utilize the ports infra-
>>> structure.
>>>
>>>        # cd /var/db/pkg
>>>        # pkg_delete -fad
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>        # pkg_delete -f *
>>
>> These are both equivalent to
>>  # pkg_delete -a
>>
>

Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run
# portmaster -a -f -D

and do an in place update of all ports?
is this the recommended way or nuking and rebuilding?

Regards,

Antonio


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