Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*) Message-ID: <20050430140440.I47465@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org> References: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org>
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> Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my > machine? > > Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its > requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its > requirements and what I already have on my machine. If I have 7 out of the > 10 requirements.... I would like the remaining 3 listed for me. > > Is there something in place which provides this? The "portupgrade" port can do this. Something like... portupgrade -n -Rr someport The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. The -r and -R tell it to upgrade any dependencies in both directions. At the end it will print out a little summary of what ports it needs to upgrade, what needs installed, and what you've already got. -philip
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