From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 25 9:55:55 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3088937B71D; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2PHthT25162; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:55:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2PHwCw73383; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:58:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200103251758.f2PHwCw73383@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Steve Kargl Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/weekly 400.status-pkg In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Kargl of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:20:45 -0800." <20010325092045.A24469@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:58:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 It identifies what ports are out-of-date.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 png isn't obsolete, it's out of date (and is already identified as such by 400.status-pkg).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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message