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Originally Posted by deadeyes
I wondered if portupgrade -a does recompile every package, or only packages that are upgraded/updated.
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portupgrade -a will upgrade all packages that need upgraded; up-to-date packages will not be upgraded.
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Originally Posted by deadeyes
Also, if I do portupgrade -af for updating my system, and it gives me an output that some packages are failed, others are skipped and other ignored, and then type portupgrade -af again. Will this recompile all those packages again?
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portupgrade -af will force all packages to be upgraded whether they are up-to-date or not. It has no knowledge of whether you ran it before or not, so it would start from the beginning if you ran it again.
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Originally Posted by deadeyes
Why would some packages be ignored for updating?
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If package A requires package B and package B fails, package A will be skipped. A package could be ignored if it is currently broken or set to be ignored or if some other error occurred.