Upgrading Using "FreeBSD Update"
    Jinsong Zhao 
    jszhao at yeah.net
       
    Wed Nov  7 02:31:49 UTC 2012
    
    
  
Hi,
 >> My questions is: how to rebuild all third-party applications? I have
 >> kept the ports tree up to date using
 >> # portsnap fetch update
 >> and
 >> # portmaster -Ga
 >> every day.
 >> ...
 >
 > I would advise you to drop -G option and use these entries:
 > # portsnap fetch update
 > # portmaster -f portmaster
 > # portmaster -a -f
 >
 > Ref: PORTMASTER(8) Examples.
 > jb
Thank you very much for your reply and the Ref to PORTMASTER(8). The 
last example in the man page may be what I want during the upgrade to 
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE.
Regards,
Jinsong
    
    
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