Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:08:34 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster some_port vs. portmaster 'some_port*' Message-ID: <20090114210834.1481eebc@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090114203941.7516d639@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <20090114203941.7516d639@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:39:41 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > Maybe I'm not reading the man page correctly, but I would expect > portmaster, if invoked with a wild-card, to: > - first update the dependencies of the ports matched by the > 'some_port*' it gets on the command line > - then to update the ports matched by said wild-card in dependency > order. Logically it should work through all relevant ports in dependency order, which is not the same thing as your two-stage build. The way you expected it to work doesn't guarantee dependency order. Think about the the dependency order FooA -> Bar -> FooB and the wildcard Foo*
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