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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:34:17 +1000
From:      Gautam Gopalakrishnan <thatha@gmail.com>
To:        Ron Joordens <ron.joordens@indec.com.au>
Cc:        "'Freebsd-Questions \(E-mail\)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can Portupgrade provide a list of files to download?
Message-ID:  <a3ada2d104071303343d9f53a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377212C7@INDEC-NTSERVER>
References:  <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377212C7@INDEC-NTSERVER>

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:07:57 +1000, Ron Joordens
<ron.joordens@indec.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I was playing with Gentoo the other day and discovered that it has a pretend
> option that prints out all the files needed and their urls (several for each
> file). What a time saver!
> 
> I tried portupgrade with the -n pretend option to see how it worked.
> However, it does not give url's and it seems to lists the version of the
> port it is upgrading from rather than the version it is upgrading to.

# cd /usr/ports/.....
# make fetch-recursive-list

This will print the list of urls, each URL is separated by a ||
(logical or) so if one fails it will try the next. Each file fetched
will be on a separate line.

Cheers
Gautam



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