Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:23:15 +0200 From: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com> To: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question Message-ID: <a64c109e05032719233efe4bdb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42477548.70906@att.net> References: <424769D0.5030500@att.net> <20050328023133.GA46123@thened.net> <42477548.70906@att.net>
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:08:56 -0800, Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> wrote: > Alec Berryman wrote: > > > Jay O'Brien on 2005-03-27 18:20:00 -0800: > > > > > >>Now, pkg_info says I have 10 packages installed; added were ezm3, > >>gettext, gmake, libiconv, libtool, portupgrade,ruby and ruby18. If > >>these all required to make portupgrade or perl work, where is that > >>reference? > > > > > > They are required to build and run portupgrade. If you do a 'make search > > name=portupgrade' from /usr/ports, it will list all the dependencies. > > > > > >>PS.. I tried to install portmanager again, and this time it got the > >>files immediately and installed fine. It took about a minute, not two > >>hours. It reports that all my ports are up to date. Whew. > > > > > > That's because portupgrade did all the work :) If you had run > > portmanager before running portupgrade, you would have seen something > > similar - portmanager taking two hours and portupgrade taking almost > > no time at all. > > Alec, > > Thanks, I searched the FreeBSD Handbook for "dependency" and didn't find any > reference to "make search". I guess it is one of those things that once you > know about it you don't have to look for it any more. Unfortunately a lot > of the documentation I can review is written for those folks who already > know the answers. > > Thanks for the heads up on 'make search', even if I can't find a complete > description of the command. I find that it is referenced in the manual, > however. > > I see that several of the packages that were installed aren't listed in the > dependencies for portupgrade. Only the two ruby programs are listed. ezm3, gettext, gmake, libiconv, libtool are the build dependencies for cvsup-without-gui. # cd /usr/ports # make search name="cvsup-without-gui" If you updated your soirces/ports "cvsup" then portupgrade did what you asked it to do. It Updated all outdated packages/ports and there dependencies. > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Kind regards Abu Khaled
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