From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 03:13:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A4416A420 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:13:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60011.mail.yahoo.com (web60011.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F69E43D75 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:13:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 85067 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Mar 2006 03:13:16 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ziKslpqy0ZIV2Id7TmAH0TYs/NhEJN62ZDi8sC7d+3WhaQSqvUzImqftqFBkHqm9oqVikpdQhokjYqnmE07rL8iLFdfXbHmY/EtemNEzU8+D5TmhuXvENnkH5ZgvHn6I3EmENk+uNF4ZVHXPDoYLg78vr3legmJzsVRSqWmqNLw= ; Message-ID: <20060301031316.85065.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.133] by web60011.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:13:16 EST Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:13:16 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: simple question on portupgrade 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: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:13:27 -0000 Good evening, I am looking at the "downward recursive" option of portupgrade. Does this option (-R) only include the immediate dependencies of the port in question or is it truly recursive in the sense that it will upgrade dependencies of dependencies as well? Secondly, I see that the features of portupgrade for upward and downward recursiveness use opposite lettering to that of pkg_info: portupgrade -R is like pkg_info -r portupgrade -r is like pkg_info -R Example: # portupgrade -Rn bash ---> Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.9.2_2) - devel/gettext (gettext-0.14.5_2) - shells/bash (bash-3.1.10) # pkg_info -rx bash Dependency: libiconv-1.9.2_2 Dependency: gettext-0.14.5_2 This seems pretty silly. Am I missing something? -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca