From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 16:00:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA621065677 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+WY=b076fa3a@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB38A8FC1F for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+WY=b076fa3a@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468BB163F66 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E3523E49C for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:44:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:44:56 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080610164456.6a7e2f15@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: portmaster argument question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:29 -0000 On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:56:34 -0400 "Tsu-Fan Cheng" wrote: > Hi, > just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to > gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster > -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is > interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow > skipping ports already up to date. AFAIK all the ports that depend on gettext were version-bumped, so it's not essential to force the upgrade. In other words you can just update those ports that are still out-of-date -just like any other update.