Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:18:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*) Message-ID: <p06210223be9be5b7597f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org> References: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org> <20050430140440.I47465@wolf.pjkh.com> <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org>
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At 4:25 PM -0500 4/30/05, Eric Schuele wrote: >Philip Hallstrom wrote: >> >>The "portupgrade" port can do this. Something like... >> >>portupgrade -n -Rr someport >> >>The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. > >This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it. But its giving >me difficulties. > >I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR "x11-fm/rox-filer"` for example. I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you have already installed. It keeps a database of already-installed ports, and that's what it is using to track '-Rr'. Or at least, 'portupgrade -nN' never does anything useful for me, even though it is very useful to do 'portupgrade -n -Rr' when upgrading ports you have already installed. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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