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On Sunday 27 February 2005 16:32, Richard Danter wrote:
>...
> I guess the last step is to recompile the ports I have installed. Is
> there a quick way to rebuild just the ports I have installed or do I
> need to go through them all one by one and 'make install clean' them?
>

The easiest way is to use portupgrade

portupgrade -fa will work, but I tend to use something like this: 

portupgrade -f  '<2005-02-27 16:40' 

which means force a rebuild of ever port built before the given time. This can 
be restarted if a build fails or you need to stop and restart.