Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:39:55 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Numerous unpleasant surprises in latest portupgrade Message-ID: <56D7E0B4-4DA5-46CE-BB25-C6600FFE20D1@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20080212091754.28821ab4@serene.no-ip.org> References: <20080212091754.28821ab4@serene.no-ip.org>
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On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > The latest portupgrade suddenly seems to have become *very* > unintuitive, > and extremely quirky/buggy. Some of the error/info messages no longer > make any sense at all to me, either! I have noticed it doesn't chase *any* dependencies that need upgrading if the base port specified doesn't need updating. For example, if pcre is outdated and I do "portupgrade -Rrv postfix" it will do nothing unless postfix itself needs updating too, even though it is a dependency. This is very un-useful behavior.
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