updating ports

[Siju George]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Stuart Henderson<stu at spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> This will attempt to build *everything* (some things may fail because
> they can't be built with an old version installed, though this is less
> likely to happen with -stable) and then attempt to update them.
> This is almost certainly /not/ what you want.
>

Yes that was what I was wondering about :-)
It seemed to build even things that are not installed in my system.

> /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date can produce a list of
> installed packages that need an update, in a format you can write to
> a file and feed to "make SUBDIRLIST=<file> ..."
>

Thanks for the tip :-)

--Siju