upgrading all ports

[Erik Nørgaard]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> 
> 
>>It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from
>>ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up.
> 
> 
> On toy systems, maybe.  I've got 654 ports installed on the machine I'm typing 
> this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to selectively upgrade 
> a few of them rather than starting over from scratch.

I think you overlooked one important thing in the original post, and in 
my post as well: We are talking about upgrading the entire system, not 
just a few ports.

Upgrading a few ports is faster using portupgrade, yes.

Erik

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