Should I rebuild all ports?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:57:19PM +0900, Choy Kho Yee wrote:
> I have just upgraded FreeBSD 5.3BETA6 to BETA7.
> According to /usr/src/UPDATING, some of the system
> libraries have been upgraded, and we should rebuild
> all ports if we want to use the new libraries. So,
> 
>  1. should I rebuild all ports? (I think it should take one
>      whole day...)

I don't know. Does the apps work?

>  2. If I am to rebuild all ports, what is the command I
>      should use?

Best is if you install the port portupgrade and then do:
portupgrade -fa

If you just want to compile a app that doesn't work do:
portupgrade -fR portname

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Alex

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