Re: portupgrade -a

From: Olivier Gautherot (ogautherot_at_freesurf.fr)
Date: 06/07/04

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    To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:31:13 +0200

    Hi Joshua!

    To be honest, a portupgrade -a is kind of dangerous... I did it and the
    system broke. Don't ask why, I have not figured it out yet but
    eventually portupgrade itself failed (ruby dumps the core). I had a
    whole bunch of packages loaded so I may have had an overflow or
    something.

    In other words, "If it works, don't fix it" :-)

    Cheerio
            Olivier

    On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 06:17, Joshua Lewis wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > After running portsdb -Uu I ran a portupgrade -a.
    >
    > Other than taking two days to finish is there a reason why upgrading "ALL"
    > ports at one time is a bad idea?
    >
    > one other thing. I got hundreds of _POSIX_C_SOURCE: not defined errors.
    >
    > I am assuming this is some kind of system variable that defines where my C
    > Source files are located. If I am correct would someone tell me what this
    > setting should be and where to find the file that I set it in?
    >
    > As always the newbies mailing list is a great help. Thanks in advance.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Thank you,
    > Joshua Lewis
    >
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