From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 16:27:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA561065700 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:27:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB488FC29 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o25GRY1f000619 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:27:35 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B9130F6.5040901@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:27:34 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anselm Strauss References: <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com> <29722c131003050814i46cff405s5996768dd94f653f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <29722c131003050814i46cff405s5996768dd94f653f@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: daniele , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port/package install preview X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:27:39 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:14:12, Anselm Strauss wrote: > That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would > like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of > dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports also incorporate > the current state of installed packages? I think 'portmaster -n' is probably your best bet for this. Ports certainly does take account of what has already been installed either from ports or packages -- remember that a package is basically an installed port: once the bits have hit the disk platter it doesn't matter whether they came from a local compilation or were downloaded as a package tarball. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuRMPYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwj/gCdEhI27ylg1bFV62vXsw4odbfE RJkAn1EJXo1TIkWTxz6qxJOusjBfdcRt =aDm9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----