portmaster not ask for port deletion

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 24 23:28:33 UTC 2009


Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Just in case someone reads this and tries 'portupgrade -af', it also
> will re-build all installed ports, whether they need upgrading. This is
> the command to re-build ALL ports when the library versions get bumped
> (as they did recently for 8.0BETA).
> 
> To just update the ports that need updating, the command is 'portupgrade
> -a', probably the same as in portmaster.

Yeah, I should have been more clear. '-af' will do the same thing in
both tools. Where it gets interesting is that when specifying
individual ports on the command line portmaster does by default what
'portupgrade -f' does.

> In either case (portupgrade or portmaster), read the man pages BEFORE
> shooting yourself in the foot. Both can certainly do that.

Agreed. :)


Doug

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