rebuild all installed ports

[ccc]

hi

I'd like to rebuild all installed packages on my freeBSD 7.2.
Is it:portmaster -aF more effective than:
portupgrade -farR

[DutchDaemon]

Both do nothing with your ports tree. See portsnap.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsnap.html

[ccc]

sorry, I mean rebuild the portsystem.

[SirDice]

Read /usr/ports/UPDATING before you do anything.

[DutchDaemon]

portmaster -Raf should do fine. To speed things up, you could add flags like -BCd. See portmaster for their meaning. If you currently have any ports with warnings (from portaudit), set DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes in the environment first to prevent the run from aborting when it encounters a port listed as unsafe. And yes, what SirDice said. Handle ports mentioned there separately before you do the entire run.

[xiaoj]

portupgrade -af

[fender0107401]

1.
cd /usr/src
make update

2.
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
make deinstall
make install clean

3.
portupgrade -af


I think you shold do this, if you upgrade from one release to another.