From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 14:18:40 2005 Return-Path: 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 C2CE816A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:18:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6006A43D31 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:18:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j42EIa14020227; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:18:37 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org> References: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org> <20050430140440.I47465@wolf.pjkh.com> <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org> Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:18:35 -0400 To: Eric Schuele , Philip Hallstrom From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:18:40 -0000 At 4:25 PM -0500 4/30/05, Eric Schuele wrote: >Philip Hallstrom wrote: >> >>The "portupgrade" port can do this. Something like... >> >>portupgrade -n -Rr someport >> >>The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. > >This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it. But its giving >me difficulties. > >I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR "x11-fm/rox-filer"` for example. I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you have already installed. It keeps a database of already-installed ports, and that's what it is using to track '-Rr'. Or at least, 'portupgrade -nN' never does anything useful for me, even though it is very useful to do 'portupgrade -n -Rr' when upgrading ports you have already installed. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu