How to reconfigure all installed ports?

Hi,

I'm coming from Gentoo and are totally new to FreeBSD ports system...

What I want is, to reconfigure all installed ports and rebuild/reinstall them afterwards.

That is, because if I want to install a port, I just make it, and leave all configure options as they are... I'm a bit impatient... :e
And later on, I want to reconfigure them thoughtfully.

So, how to do that? Can I use portupgrade -af, or make installworld?
 
install ports-mgmt/portmaster
read about --force-config option

I haven't tested, but I think something like # portmaster --foce-config -r -a would work

an alternative is:
# rm -f /var/db/ports/*
This will delete all stored configurations of all ports

if you want to configure just one port cd to it and run # make config
 
Blackbird said:
Hi,

I'm coming from Gentoo and are totally new to FreeBSD ports system...

What I want is, to reconfigure all installed ports and rebuild/reinstall them afterwards.
...
So, how to do that? Can I use portupgrade -af, or make installworld?

(installworld is for the operating system, nothing to do with ports.)

See the portupgrade man page for the -C option. It will do the config steps for all ports before rebuilding.
 
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