Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:05:31 -0700 From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mark Shepard <mns@MetaThink.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... Message-ID: <19990928210531.A734@norn.ca.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909282038080.87789-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <19990928114145.A41493@ed209.home> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909282038080.87789-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:40:50PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mark Shepard wrote: > > > I _like_ the idea of a email-summary of "What's New in the World of Ports". > > We used to have this. I think it morphed into the webpage mutation we > have now (note you can request all the changed ports in the last X time > frame). > > Maybe it's posted to the -ports mailing list? http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=580888+0+archive/1999/freebsd-ports/19990919.freebsd-ports > > > - Before I do a "make install", is there some way to > > find out exactly which dependencies of the port I'm installing are also > > going to need to be upgraded? > > I think a 'make checkdep' type target to run the dependency check w/o > actually building them would be a plus. This should be very easy to do w/ > the current bsd.port.mk frame. make package-depends might be what you're looking for. -Chris -- :Chris Piazza : Abbotsford, BC: :cpiazza@home.net : cpiazza@FreeBSD.org: : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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