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Date:      Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:15:37 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        will@csociety.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include assert.h complex.h ctype.h db.h dirent.h dlfcn.h err.h fnmatch.h fstab.h fts.h glob.h grp.h hesiod.h ieeefp.h ifaddrs.h langinfo.h libgen.h link.h locale.h math.h mpool.h ndbm.h netconfig.h netdb.h nl_types.h nlist.h nsswitch.h ...
Message-ID:  <20020323181537.GX22998@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020323.111151.17427492.imp@village.org>
References:  <200203231724.g2NHOuM92675@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020323180807.GW22998@squall.waterspout.com> <20020323.111151.17427492.imp@village.org>

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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:11:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> My appologies.  glint appaers to be the actual name.  Also, due to the
> weak meta-port dependency checks, it appears that it is almost
> impossible to upgrade the port without knowing what all the subports
> are and what order to build them in.  Maybe this is just an ordering
> issue.
> 
> # I really don't like the XFree86-4 meta port, since there's no way to
> # force the depends to build and install.

Sure there is.  portupgrade -uR XFree86.  There's other assorted
hacks to make it work in the ports tree, but (as has been known
for *years*) there is no sensible way to upgrade anything with
just standard ports methods.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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