portupgrade -a

[Gerard Seibert]

On Monday, June 07, 2004 8:00:55 AM freebsd-newbies-request at freebsd.org wrote:

|>From: "Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis at dslextreme.com>
|>Subject: portupgrade -a
|>To: freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org
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|>Hello,
|>
|>After running portsdb -Uu I ran a portupgrade -a.
|>
|>Other than taking two days to finish is there a reason why upgrading "ALL"
|>ports at one time is a bad idea?
|>
|>one other thing. I got  hundreds of _POSIX_C_SOURCE: not defined errors.
|>
|>I am assuming this is some kind of system variable that defines where my C
|>Source files are located. If I am correct would someone tell me what this
|>setting should be and where to find the file that I set it in?
|>
|>As always the newbies mailing list is a great help. Thanks in advance.
|>
|>
|>
|>
|>Thank you,
|>Joshua Lewis


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Monday, June 07, 2004 6:32:21 PM

Personally, I always used the following options with portupgrade:

	portupgrade -aDDPRrv

You could tack a 'y' to the end if you wanted to answer yes to
everything. There is also the 's' switch, but since you are already at
root prior to running the portupgrade program, it doesn't seem to make
very much sense.

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com