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Randy Pratt writes:

>  > 	Is there a port that will produce a unified and ordered
>  > dependency list, such that upgrading/reinstalling in that order will
>  > avoid multiple rebuilds?  I though portupgrade could to this, but
>  > apparently not.
>  
>  Portupgrade installs several pkg_* tools [1].  The pkg_glob and
>  pkg_sort tools might be what you're looking for.  Here's an
>  example:
>  
>    pkg_glob [package names] | pkg_sort

	"pkg_sort" seems to be the droid I'm looking for.
	Thanks.


				Robert Huff