From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 30 13:10:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E463437B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from natto.numachi.com (natto.numachi.com [198.175.254.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46D9C43E6E for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:10:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 32424 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 2002 21:10:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:16 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Larry Rosenman , Brian Reichert , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How flexible _is_ the use of ports? Message-ID: <20021030161016.K618@numachi.com> References: <20021030150951.J618@numachi.com> <1036008702.460.29.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> <20021030204056.GG197@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021030204056.GG197@vectors.cx>; from adamw@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:40:56PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:40:56PM -0800, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (10.30.2002 @ 1211 PST): Larry Rosenman said, in 1.5K: << > > portupgrade -fr portname > > > > (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade). > > > > (or is it portupgrade -fR? ) read the man page. > >> end of "Re: How flexible _is_ the use of ports?" from Larry Rosenman << > > He wants portupgrade -fr portname. -r does all the dependencies *down* > the list; -R does all the dependencies *up* the list. (R:uppercase :: > -R:up the list). Wow, that was a really sappy analogy ::) Cool! Thanks for the responses: I was messing with portcheckout, which didn't quite swing it. Is there a canonical list of tools for port management? It seems to be: install one, read it's manpage for 'see also', install _those_, recurse until bored. (This looks really cool, actually...) > -Adam -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message