Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:30:40 -0400 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org>, "E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo@laposte.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is this portupgrade command close? Message-ID: <200304181530.40513.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030418184934.GB4977@tao.thought.org> References: <20030418180758.GA4820@tao.thought.org> <3EA042AC.9070305@laposte.net> <20030418184934.GB4977@tao.thought.org>
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On Friday 18 April 2003 02:49 pm, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:23:40PM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > > # portupgrade -bP openoffice-1.0.3 > > > > If you want to keep a backup of the older files and build a package > > after install then it is the command but it won't upgrade the capital P will attempt to download and install a package if it can. This seems like what he wanted to do. lower case p will create a package after it's done building > > dependencies. If dependencies need to be upgraded also you might end up > > with different versions of dependencies. > > Since I'm not interested in keeping a backup or build a package I always > > use this: > > > > # portupgrade -R port_name > > > > The -R makes sure it builds my out of date dependencies also > > Since I have the newer 1.0.3 src I could just rebuild > here. That may be the more rational approch if I were > to do a src upgrade. > > Shouldn't the dependencies be correctly configured in > the package tarball? no. a package is a pckage of just that port/program. If you use packages without having the correct dependencies installed, it wil not install the package properly. My guess is you would want the R, Gary. I have not tried it, but I assume that if you use -RP it will use packages for everything including the packages that openoffice needs. Tim
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