Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:20:59 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade -- revisited Message-ID: <877kbhw2xw.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200303021819.38745.kstewart@owt.com> (Kent Stewart's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:19:38 -0800") References: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> <200303021628.21627.kstewart@owt.com> <87healw8ao.fsf@strauser.com> <200303021819.38745.kstewart@owt.com>
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--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-03-03T02:19:38Z, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> writes: > We are basically doing the same thing. A portversion -c would have shown > x, y, and z. When I check the versions, I would have seen that y depended > on x and z. I would specify x and z on the -ruf. This is what I called > an interesection. If there is more than one intersection, I usually have > rebuilt everything. I see. Why specify `-f'? Wouldn't that force an upgrade of packages that don't need it? > I have seen situations where your -rR would have really been beneficial=20 > and faster than rebuilding everything. Indeed. Many time when I'm upgrading a server, for instance, I'll skip on some of the userland niceties. I don't get too upset about port version bumps of Emacs, but I want mod_php4 to be as current as possible. > True! But the b-dep for kdebase is > > [a lot of stuff] > > and a -R kdebase would have rebuilt all of this. It wouldn't really rebuild very much of that, though, would it? Surely the majority of those packages would be relatively stable, wouldn't they? =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+Ysoe5sRg+Y0CpvERAji6AJ9XB15v/FU23WZKAx2u01dNJd56MACdEpRp /8/RsuQMUQPFeQF/7XcR7JY= =DPlu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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