Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:24:02 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When to use 'portupgrade -R' Message-ID: <41BA05E2.9090103@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <bc5b6385041210120478b1439c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041210145456.GB74945@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041210170210.L955@pukruppa.net> <20041210163932.GC74945@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <bc5b6385041210113236b5aee4@mail.gmail.com> <20041210193740.GA3529@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <bc5b6385041210120478b1439c@mail.gmail.com>
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Joshua Lokken wrote: >On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:37:40 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick ><jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote: > > >>On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:32:33PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: >>: from 'man portupgrade(1)': >> >> >>: >>: -r >>: --recursive Act on all those packages depending on the >>: given packages as well. >>: >>: -R >>: --upward-recursive Act on all those packages required >>: by the given packages as well. [snip] >>: >>: It sounds like you are / were not sure of what those options >>: actually do. Have a read of the manpage; it'll do you worlds >>: of good. >> >>Actually, it WAS what I was trying to do. I wanted to >upgrade gnome2-lite >>and all the packages it required, because gnome2-lite is >a meta-port. >> >> > >If you're trying to upgrade a large bunch of ports like gnome, >you may want to start by running portupgrade on the >required libraries. For example, although I usually install >XFree86-4 via the meta-port, when I want to upgrade it, I >generally run 'portupgrade -r XFree86-4-libraries', which first >upgrades the libs, then all the ports (including the rest of >the XFree86 stuff) that require XFree86-4-libraries. YMMV. > > If you're upgrading gnome2, what you *really* wanna do is use the FreeBSD-Gnome Project's "gnome_upgrade.sh" script. Can't say for sure about "gnome-lite", though :-| Kevin Kinsey
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