Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:38:54 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*) Message-ID: <427673BE.2030103@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <p06210224be9bf1ab26d3@[128.113.24.47]> References: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org> <20050430140440.I47465@wolf.pjkh.com> <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org> <p06210223be9be5b7597f@[128.113.24.47]> <42763C51.1080109@computer.org> <p06210224be9bf1ab26d3@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:42 AM -0500 5/2/05, Eric Schuele wrote: > >> Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>> >>> I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which >>> you have already installed. >> >> >> Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to. >> >> I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell >> script away.... I'm just not that savvy though. If I can't find >> something which already does what I'm looking for.... I'll muddle >> through writing a script to do it. > > > If there isn't anything which already exists, then I'd try something > along the lines of 'cd'-ing into the directory of the port you want > to install, and getting the output of: > > make -V RUN_DEPENDS -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS > > (that should give you three lines, some or all of which might be > blank lines). Each non-blank line will be of the form "a1:b1 a2:b2 ...", > where each "a" is a pathname, and each "b" is a portname. > > I'll leave it to you to decide where you go from there... Thanks for the pointers. > > You might want to check through: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/port* > and see if any of those already do what you want to see done. > Will do. -- Regards, Eric
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