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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:48:43 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reinstall all installed ports
Message-ID:  <20021029234843.GA4309@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1035933528.57755.30.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>
References:  <1035933528.57755.30.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:18:47AM +1100, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> I just need to reinstall all my ports.. only 67 so I'll survive.
>=20
> However I'm just wondering what the best command would be.
>=20
> Given I'm doing all of them, I'm just curious if I need to worry about
> dependencies and reinstall in order type thing..or if I can just
> reinstall each package in any order..

If you do them out of order the dependency information will be screwed
up.  It's best to let portupgrade do it for you all at once and in order.

> Is portupgrade -af my best bet?

That's what I use.

Kris

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