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Date:      Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:29 +0400
From:      Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring).
Message-ID:  <4E6FB315.804@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4E6F46A3.4080809@missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote on 13.09.2011 16:03:

> In particular, checking which ports depend on a port just updated is a
> particularly nasty thing to do. I get the impression that each committer
> has his own special way of doing this. For example, I have personally
> found that a simple grep won't work, because "grep xxx
> /usr/ports/*/Makefile*" just creates a line too long for the shell to
> handle. I use a shell construction involving "find" but I wonder how
> others do the same thing.

http://beta.freshports.org/*category*/*portname*

Required by:
for Build
for Run

is quite useful as for me. But it can't catch all of them.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.



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