Large port updates

Yann Golanski yann at kierun.org
Tue Dec 7 07:56:53 PST 2004


Quoth Ivan Voras on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 16:47:23 +0100
> Is there a "best practice" for automated updating large number of 
> interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I 
> wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an 
> existing one, and fail.

portupgrade is what you want.  Please, please, please do read the man
page and understand what it tells you.

Also, you should check the archives for a script I posted sometimes ago
(fairly recently). 

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