portmaster on updates

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Sun, June 13, 2010 16:23, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.

thanks first of all.

I think my problem was this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg22403.html

I did a portmaster --check-depends

and now is running portmaster -ad.

thanks,

matheus

> hth,
>
> Doug
>
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