Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:08:56 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question Message-ID: <42477548.70906@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20050328023133.GA46123@thened.net> References: <424769D0.5030500@att.net> <20050328023133.GA46123@thened.net>
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Alec Berryman wrote: > Jay O'Brien on 2005-03-27 18:20:00 -0800: > > >>Now, pkg_info says I have 10 packages installed; added were ezm3, >>gettext, gmake, libiconv, libtool, portupgrade,ruby and ruby18. If >>these all required to make portupgrade or perl work, where is that >>reference? > > > They are required to build and run portupgrade. If you do a 'make search > name=portupgrade' from /usr/ports, it will list all the dependencies. > > >>PS.. I tried to install portmanager again, and this time it got the >>files immediately and installed fine. It took about a minute, not two >>hours. It reports that all my ports are up to date. Whew. > > > That's because portupgrade did all the work :) If you had run > portmanager before running portupgrade, you would have seen something > similar - portmanager taking two hours and portupgrade taking almost > no time at all. Alec, Thanks, I searched the FreeBSD Handbook for "dependency" and didn't find any reference to "make search". I guess it is one of those things that once you know about it you don't have to look for it any more. Unfortunately a lot of the documentation I can review is written for those folks who already know the answers. Thanks for the heads up on 'make search', even if I can't find a complete description of the command. I find that it is referenced in the manual, however. I see that several of the packages that were installed aren't listed in the dependencies for portupgrade. Only the two ruby programs are listed. Jayhome | help
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