From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 19:40:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9544B16A403 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC8913C48C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF21F5193C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070329204005.1c3b7130@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070329121553.070a6321@localhost> References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20070327202842.1678265c.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070328212432.669353e4@gumby.homeunix.com> <20070329003659.GW11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20070329121553.070a6321@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F 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: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:40:09 -0000 On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:15:53 -0400 Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400 > "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > > On 28/03/07 RW said: > > > > > The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade > > > offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not > > > essential, with portmaster, it's essential that the -r option is > > > used, If it's not, or the upgrade fails to complete, you can > > > end-up with not much more than the base-system working. > > > > Wow. You would think that such tools would prevent you from getting > > into that situation. > > That is the beauty of portmanager. Just using the -p flag will > guarantee that all dependencies are updated, no matter how far down > the dependency's tree. Using the -u -p combination will get everything > working correctly, although in the case of the 'gettext' update, it > can involve a large number of applications being updated. > Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the package database are also recursive. The big problem with gettext was that a lot of port failed to build afterwards, leaving them with a missing library.