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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:13:56 +0100
From:      Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports required to rebuild after upgrading Xorg to 7.4
Message-ID:  <20090124181356.GD35469@reindeer.haidundneu23.net>
In-Reply-To: <497B3E95.8050506@janh.de>
References:  <497B3E95.8050506@janh.de>

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## Jan Henrik Sylvester (me@janh.de):

> >> Did you run portupgrade -rf libxcb?
> > On a related note: I ran above command _before_ doing a full
> > "portupgrade -a". A whole bunch of ports failed to upgrade because
> A mixture of -rf and a -a upgrade is always problematic, unless you were 
> up-to-date before the library in question got updated.

I was quite close to being up-to-date (some hours), which has been
close enough in all cases until now (that's why I csup once a day,
so I can update to a point close before larger changes and then
do whatever UPDATING suggests).

> BTW: Doing -rf is usually a lot more compile(!) time consuming than 
> necessary, since indirect dependencies of a port usually (but only 
> usually) do not link against the library in question. If you (think you) 
> know what you are doing, you can try to find the ports that actually 
> link against an old library using 'libchk -v' (or pkg_libchk as 
> mentioned above).

And in case I screw up, I'll just take pkg_delete -fa and start over :)
Luckily, such updates as X do not happen that often (as far as I can
remember it's just X, Gnome and perhaps KDE triggering large-scale
compiler action).

Regards,
Christoph

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