best method for reinstalling all ports

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wonslung

i was reading some of the docs today and noticed this section on gcc http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/custom-gcc/article.html


I have a few seedboxes with identical specs, so on the new one i used this method, and it actually does seem to give me a better performance. I was wondering what the best way to reinstall my ports would be? is there a problem with just reinstalling them one by one?


thanks for any help


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going to try portmaster
 
As I would do it, build all the ports you need on one machine, preferably in a clean jail, creating packages as you go. Mount the package dir or otherwise transfer them to the other machines. Pkg_delete everything and install the packages you've created.

Building everything takes the most time obviously. Removing then installing the pre-build packages shouldn't take more then 30 minutes.
 
I don't think a list like that exists. Or perhaps someone here may have made one.

All I can suggest is to build everything in a jail. That way you can't screw up your current (working) install.
 
SirDice said:
I don't think a list like that exists. Or perhaps someone here may have made one.

All I can suggest is to build everything in a jail. That way you can't screw up your current (working) install.
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yah, that's what i'm going to end up doing. I just found out the hard way that rtorrent doesn't like gcc44 at all.
 
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