Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade mess Message-ID: <20030314030633.GA5132@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313144344.00b88ed0@pop51.bellnet.ca> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313134256.00b600f8@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030313134256.00b600f8@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20030313144344.00b88ed0@pop51.bellnet.ca>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:54:03PM -0500, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > At 11:22 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >I forced the portugrade of imake. That also rebuilt kde-3. I have found > >that if you don't force, it only updates the ports that have changed. > >It doesn't take care of the full b-dep dependancy list. > > Hmmm... now, that's interesting. > It is more than interesting, it is something I have vaguely moaned about already. Portupgrade does not handle the so called meta-ports at all well. Anything like KDE and Gnome as well I suppose, forget it. > I did portupgrade of imake (without any special options) before upgrading > XFree86 as I needed to use the computer (WinXP) and had to wait until off > hours to upgrade the rest. So, I'm wondering if that did not mess up > something. I did notice that KDE3 was up-to-date and did not need > upgrading, but I caught something about KDE3 upgrade on one of the > computers. Does that mean that imake is reponsible somehow for upgrading > KDE3? > What is the switch to force the upgrade? > How did the upgrade of imake lead to the rebuild of kde-3? > I asked myself this very same question several months ago. No answers came forth. > BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's > max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated and > I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there... > Delete everything in "/usr/ports/distfiles". And before you go to bed one night do a "make clean" from "/usr/ports". It takes .... some time... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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