Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:40:33 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it? Message-ID: <4FE82401.7080307@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206250046110.60400@prime.gushi.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206250046110.60400@prime.gushi.org>
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On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 > to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. > > Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as > the libtool2.4 fun. With normal portupgrade, this forces you to go fix > the dependent port. > > Finally, I just applied -r, which should update all dependent packages, > but it seems to upgrade them unconditionally. "-r" will upgrade all dependent ports *if* a newer version is available. "-rf" will upgrade all dependent ports unconditionally. > You would think there's an option to portupgrade that says "don't > upgrade every single package I've got, but if somewhere in the > dependency chain I need a newer version of a thing, then do it." I'm not sure what you mean. I guess you waned "portupgrade -R rt", which will upgrade all ports rt is depending on. HTH. bye av.
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