portmaster on updates

[Doug Barton]

On 06/13/10 07:18, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> I'm in an epic journey to update all packages on 8.0R (have gnome on it).
> I had to update png and gmp before this.
>
> portmaster says clutter is already installed, but as I am running
> portmaster to update all ports, most packages are indeed already there.
> just need to pack a backup and install a new version ...
>
> how can I make portmaster run till all is updated ?
>
> I use portmaster as:
>
> portmaster -afRd

Andriy already answered your question about what's happening with 
clutter, so I'll just use this as an opportunity to re-state that -af is 
rarely a good idea. If you truly want to reinstall everything, there is 
a recommended procedure for that in the portmaster man page.


hth,

Doug

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