On Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:05 +0100 Chris Whitehouse <[email protected]> articulated:
> I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's > simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports > issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so > haven't used it for a year or so. > > If you do use portmanager there are a few tricks you can do to make > it effectively unattended. > > However, doesn't -u -f mean rebuild all dependencies of all ports? In > which case wouldn't it be just as effective and cleaner for the OP to > nuke the lot and rebuild, particularly in view of the retasked > purpose. Yes, from the man pages it states it will rebuild all packages and their dependencies. I simply include the "l" so he would have a log file available if something did go wrong. In any case, I thought it might save him some trouble rebuilding his system. There are some ports; however, that will not build correctly unless the program is first removed from the system. Obviously not a friendly concept; however, a reality. The OP would have to remove them first I suppose before doing a force rebuild. Maybe just doing a "pkg_delete -adv" would be a better idea. -- Jerry ✌ [email protected] Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
