Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:58:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/weekly 400.status-pkg Message-ID: <200103251758.f2PHwCw73383@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:20:45 -0800." <20010325092045.A24469@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:35:23AM -0800, Brian Somers wrote:
> > brian 2001/03/25 03:35:23 PST
> >
> > Modified files:
> > etc/periodic/weekly 400.status-pkg
> > Log:
> > Identify obsolete ports
> >
>
> Is this really a good idea?
400.status-pkg is an advisory thing and is disabled by default. It
identifies what ports are out-of-date. If you're not interested in
knowing this then you should leave this facility disabled.
> I have 29 ports that are
> considered obsolete on my system. One of those 29
> is png-1.0.8.
png isn't obsolete, it's out of date (and is already identified as
such by 400.status-pkg). The change is to identify obsolete ports
(so that for example ``sane'' is shown as needing attention now
that it's been split into two new ports).
> If I blindly update png, do I then
> need to update all the ports that depend on png:
>
> root[18] pkg_info -R png-1.0.8
> Information for png-1.0.8:
>
> Required by:
> gd-1.8.3
> gnuplot-3.7.1
> ghostscript-6.01
> teTeX-1.0.7
> xpaint-2.5.7
> netpbm-9.7
> transfig-3.2.3
> xfig-3.2.3c
> knews-1.0b.1
> ImageMagick-5.2.3
Essentially yes. You need to pkg_delete the whole lot and then either
rebuild each port or re-install the latest packages. But as phk
says, don't do it blindly :*P
I agree that this is a PITA, but AFAIK it's the only reliable way to
do things. But this is a digression. 400.status-pkg is just the
messenger....
> --
> Steve
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