Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 10:07:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "James Tanis" <jtanis@pycoder.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/CHANGES.please Message-ID: <4607.69.55.160.9.1120831657.squirrel@pycoder.org> In-Reply-To: <20050708034129.GA84594@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050708033246.74307.qmail@web34011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050708034129.GA84594@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:41 pm, Kris Kennaway said: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:32:46PM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: >> While updating a port, it can take upwards of an hour >> to determine for sure the proper order of >> dependencies. This would be easier, and >> may save re-compile time later (less errors), if >> in each /port/ subdirectory is a file: >> DEPENDENCIES-COMMANDS > > That's what portupgrade is for. Recording all of this by hand would > be enormously complicated and not very useful. > Not to mention extremely redundant :P -- James Tanis jtanis@pycoder.org http://pycoder.org
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