Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:01:41 +0100 From: daniele <glimp@live.com> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port/package install preview Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP591A2AB12EB7AE35CD2742DC380@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com> References: <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/05/10 16:43, Anselm Strauss wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all > ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. > The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be done > with packages? pkg_add would have to download all packges first to be able > to calculate all dependencies, or can it operate on an index file? > > Anselm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hello ! Take a look at the 'ports' manpage and you will find a mean on how to get useful information on the ports collection (configuring building discover dependencies etc..) : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html Examples * fetch-list Show list of files to be fetched in order to build the port. * run-depends-list, build-depends-list Print a list of all the compile and run dependencies, and dependencies of those dependencies, by port directory. etc... d
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