Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 09:42:25 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*) Message-ID: <42763C51.1080109@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <p06210223be9be5b7597f@[128.113.24.47]> References: <4273EFF5.8090504@computer.org> <20050430140440.I47465@wolf.pjkh.com> <4273F7D1.4030702@computer.org> <p06210223be9be5b7597f@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. > Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to. I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell script away.... I'm just not that savvy though. If I can't find something which already does what I'm looking for.... I'll muddle through writing a script to do it. -- Regards, Eric
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