Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:02:48 -0500 From: Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "make upgrade" for ports Message-ID: <36B4E118.F2DA78CE@videotron.ca>
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Hi, Before starting a project of my own, I want to make sure there's not already an ongoing effort of the same nature. What I intend to do is add a mechanism that will let you upgrade a port, even if other packages rely on it. Right now, one has to do a pkg_delete -f every time he wants to upgrade a port, but this breaks dependencies. I'd like to be able to type "make upgrade" in a ports directory, and have make upgrade it if a newer version is available, along with all other ports on which it relies if those have newer versions as well. Then all the dependencies would be rebuilt so that pkg_info -a will report them correctly. If anyone is working on such a project, I'd be interested to help. If not, I'd like to get some more detailed information on the ports/pkg_add/pkg_delete mechanism so I can start on it. Thank you very much. Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca> Electrical Engineering Technologist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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