Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:20:04 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Determining proper order to upgrade Message-ID: <20060304110458.H84522@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
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I'm one of those masochists who insists on manually building all my pakages from the ports collection without using automating software like portmanager. Typically I upgrade my ports collection with cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/supfile-that-I-made-for-ports then run pkg_version -v -L '=' to get a list of what I need to upgrade. Then I pkg_info -o name-of-each-port to find out where the port lives in the ports collection, go there, and then use "make" with whatever custom options I need to upgrade it. The trouble I have is when one or more of those low-level ports that everything else depends on gets upgraded. I can spend DAYS building and rebuilding ports until everything gets built with the most current dependencies. I'm familiar with the "-r" and "-R" switches for "pkg_info", and they are a huge help in this situation, but I'm wondering if anybody has written a script that will take a list of packages to be upgraded, examine their dependencies and what depends on them, and then return a sorted list of every installed package that should be rebuilt in order to keep the dependencies current. I don't want something to automate the whole process - just something to help me out with determining which ports are affected and what order they should be rebuilt in. Some of those port management packages must have something like this internally. I guess I could go look there.
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