Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:44:56 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com>, ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Comments on todays non-NEW_XORG update Message-ID: <52492BF8.1070803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1380497843.25237.YahooMailNeo@web163901.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1380497843.25237.YahooMailNeo@web163901.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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30.09.2013 02:37, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: > It is done here, for the most part. (Epiphany remains out of the picture, persistent failure to build webkit...) but > > there were a few quirks... > The reinstall of gtk20 (which was newly missing a dependency) depended upon ibus for the install, but ibus depends > on gtk20... > > gtk20 ) make -k install > ibus ) pkg_delete && make package > gtk20 ) make package > > And the rebuild of roxterm, which was missing a vte rebuild, which was missing a pango rebuild. This occurs > here at least once a year or so... > > Here UPDATING usually cannot be followed... that lists over 300 ports needing pixman; I only > use several of them daily, and only had to rebuild a few. > > I'm used to these unexpected less-than-full-rebuild extra-rebuilds occuring, but am wondering if FreeBSD could more > precisely anticipate them in the UPDATING instructions someday. [Revising the "portmaster -r pixman" since that may take > several days, and in two hours I'm already done with it AFAIK.] > > [Tangentally, has anyone using pkg only, run across the same situation and resolved it with any ease and repeatable > instructions to the ports list??? ] I'm aways using pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts to check system after update. I gives a number of false positives but besides that it's quite sharp on what ports really deserve rebuilding. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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