From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 19: 6:49 2003 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 31DE737B404 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D865843FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18tfWv-000Ga7-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:06:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 9BEDBC7D0 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id EACD81A1A for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 8754D2256C; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade mess Message-ID: <20030314030633.GA5132@raggedclown.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313144344.00b88ed0@pop51.bellnet.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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