On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, > what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? > > I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), > or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be > portupgraded (-r). How would I do that using portmaster? I read > both man pages many times. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Hi Tom, I never gave it much thought, however, I am under the impression that portmaster does not require an explicit flag to do that. When installing some port, then I use portmaster -D /usr/port/<some port path>, the -D determining that I do not want to be prompted whether to retain the old distfiles or not, but to retain them (-d being the converse and deleting old distfiles). Using portmaster in the way described checks for dependencies and automagically updates them in case there are newer available. Cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1
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