updating ports

Siju George sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 14:58:27 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Stuart Henderson<stu at spacehopper.org> wrote:
> You can use "FORCE_UPDATE=Yes" on the make command line.
> It's described in bsd.port.mk(5),
>
>     FORCE_UPDATE  User settings.  If set to `Yes', the update target will al-
>                   ways update an installed package, as soon as its signature
>                   differs, and all dependencies that install packages will
>                   also force an update.  If set to `hard', the update target
>                   will also update installed packages even when the signature
>                   did not change.
>
> This can also be set in /etc/mk.conf if you always want to do it.
>


Thanks Stuart :-)

--Siju


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