Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:37:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding png and perl without rebuilding a whole lot of ports twice Message-ID: <5003E0D8.2070108@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <B3.D0.16070.D0FD3005@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> References: <B3.D0.16070.D0FD3005@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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On 07/16/2012 02:29, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Actually I would want to upgrade many of the ports even if they
> wouldn't be broken by upgrade in png or perl, but not twice.
Well now you're changing the parameters.
> I already have lists in /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8/+REQUIRED_BY and
> similar for Perl that could be used like your p5-list and png-list.
They aren't necessarily complete. You might want to do 'portmaster
--check-depends' before relying on them.
> Problem is how to avoid the duplicates, my scripting knowledge is not
> so advanced,
Um, sort -u? You need to do the 'portmaster -o' for perl though,
otherwise the pkgdep's in the dependent ports won't be right.
Good luck,
Doug
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Change is hard.
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