From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 03:23:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6569016A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE93643D41 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:23:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khaled.abu@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so170004wra for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:23:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=OvaNZXL4+2Jr3hz1wHX9w/v3ZKcLXXxyg5JRBV/KMkZ0zpfiV2lejqgdRu30pteCTlzh/EUyMx0vG5qX7e89ajNr7DHR+LoaIYKoCdWyaJVMcep7ZutyyAJXhhfG/lNdrFhZFkMeBzwxwHHKnewLF+DBNSCt15+qUx35L0Jpt/k= Received: by 10.54.38.45 with SMTP id l45mr1455764wrl; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.23.34 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:23:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:23:15 +0200 From: Abu Khaled To: Jay O'Brien In-Reply-To: <42477548.70906@att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <424769D0.5030500@att.net> <20050328023133.GA46123@thened.net> <42477548.70906@att.net> cc: FreeBSD - questions Subject: Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Abu Khaled List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:23:16 -0000 On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:08:56 -0800, Jay O'Brien 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