Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:04:17 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster -w -r (pcre & icu): how to avoid redundant rebuilding? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vmYxkCb9RtVQn0SgBsA9VFv25GTC-3ES55k_di=P7QNw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <02.B6.27613.660DFF05@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> References: <02.B6.27613.660DFF05@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On 01/22/13 06:26, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >I see in the UPDATING file that I need to rebuild all ports that depend on >> >pcre and icu: > >> >portmaster -w -r pcre >> >and >> >portmaster -w -r icu >> >(I don't need -f ?) > >> >How do I do this without rebuilding the same ports twice? > >> >I am on pkgng, so I can use >> >pkg info -r icu >> >and same for pcre to list ports depending on icu and pcre (long lists). > >> >I just updated, from source, to: > > >> >FreeBSD amelia2 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #14 r245542: Tue Jan 22 >> >03:00:31 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 > >> >Tom > >> I've not had any luck with avoiding redundant rebuilding as pcre and icu >> updates aren't sent out at the same time. Perhaps someone can say if I'm >> off my rocker, has anyone tried issuing 'portmaster -w -r icu pcre'? >> Perhaps that would avoid the redundant rebuilds? > >> Of course that would only work if one waits for both updates to come out. > >> -- >> Yours in Christ, > >> Joseph A Nagy Jr > > I could possibly make lists of ports that depend on pcre and icu using > > pkg info -r icu (and also pcre, redirecting to files) > > Then I could try > portmaster -w -r icu -r pcre > or do I need to use -w twice? > > Then I could see what ports it would build, say n when asked if I wanted to rebuild those ports, assuming there would be config dialogs along the line. > > Then I would run the portmaster command again with |& tee portm.log at the right end, see if I like what would be built before answering y. > > I would be able to login to another virtual terminal to examine portm.log file at the early stage when asked whether to rebuild the ports My standard answer (and huge time-saver) is to install sysutils/bsdasminscripts and do the following. This example is for pcre and icu % pkg_libchk -o | grep -E "libpcre|libicu" | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq > pcre-updates.txt % portmaster `cat pcre-updates.txt` This will only update any port once and will only update ports that really need it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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