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Date:      13 Mar 2002 11:31:45 -0800
From:      Mark Foster <mdf@enic.cc>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Managing port security upgrades (was:Re: PHP 4.1.2)
Message-ID:  <1016047905.6825.34.camel@smokey.lan.enic.cc>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203131400540.5001-100000@vapour.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203131400540.5001-100000@vapour.net>

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Sounds alot like 
pkg_version -c -v | sh

(assuming an updated ports tree)

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:07, batz wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Adam Wight wrote:
> 
> :What about a new make target, "upgrade," that only sync'ed the ports
> :subtree for the port being built and its dependencies?
> 
> Hrm, so it would be implemented in the makefiles of the entire ports
> collection? A top level makefile or one in each port? 
> 
> I was thinking about this a bit more, and it occured to me that 
> using /var/db/pkg as a reference point, and either sup'ing a new
> port, which would then get a sort of 'reverse dependancies' list, 
> from /var/db/pkg/portname/+REQUIRED_BY, and selectively upgrading 
> anything in there which had the original port as a dependancy. 
> 
> That sounds like it might run into problems with recursion, thoughts? 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> batz
> 
> 
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