From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 21:19:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8853716A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:19:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao02.cox.net (eastrmmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901B843D45 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:19:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([68.14.59.177]) by eastrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060204211919.JTPZ14821.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@serene.no-ip.org>; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:19:19 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k14LJ99C035014; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:19:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@serene.no-ip.org) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k14LJ44D035013; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:19:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:19:04 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier To: "illoai@gmail.com" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:19:12 -0000 On 04-Feb-2006 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 2/4/06, Bob Perry wrote: >> /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 >> run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of >> its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run >> portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identified? > > Yes. Tediously. I have about 74 things that depend on expat. > Or you could ignore the whole thing until something important > depending on expat needs upgrading and do the mess then. > Firefox might count as this, maybe X. Both of which seem to > have updates this last week. > >> I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a >> dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in >> this situation. > > Shouldn't matter for most of them if you didn't delete your distfiles > as they are merely(!) being rebuilt with expat 2. If you deleted your > distfiles, or close with make distclean you will have to download > them anew, sadly. Good point. This is why I *never* use the "distclean" target. Instead, I do a periodic "portsclean -CDD" (man portsclean). -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"