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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:53:34 -0800
From:      Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade -- revisited
Message-ID:  <20030303035334.GK85646@quidquam.com>
In-Reply-To: <877kbhw2xw.fsf@strauser.com>
References:  <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> <200303021628.21627.kstewart@owt.com> <87healw8ao.fsf@strauser.com> <200303021819.38745.kstewart@owt.com> <877kbhw2xw.fsf@strauser.com>

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* Kirk Strauser (kirk@strauser.com) wrote:
> At 2003-03-03T02:19:38Z, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> writes:
>=20
> > 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 depend=
ed
> > 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.
>=20
> I see.  Why specify `-f'?  Wouldn't that force an upgrade of packages that
> don't need it?

Even more to the point, specifying -Ri will allow you to only upgrade
the dependencies that you choose, interactively.

Another way is to figure out the dependency tree using pkg_info or
some tool, then just script a bunch of individual upgrades to optimize
for compile time.

mike


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