From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 5 1:55:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5604C37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B130943F79 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olive@oban.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/frmug-2.7/nospam) with UUCP id h159t4Q95878; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:55:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olive@oban.frmug.org) Received: by weirdos.oban.frmug.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7FA5C8C13; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:51:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:51:08 +0100 From: Olivier Tharan To: Greg Troxel Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libintl.so.2/4, portupgrade and evolution breakage Message-ID: <20030205095108.GF53198@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Troxel , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030204175640.6F5087C7@fnord.ir.bbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030204175640.6F5087C7@fnord.ir.bbn.com> X-Attribution: Olive Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Greg Troxel (20030204 12:56): > I have been uncomfortable with the 'upgrade just one package without > rebuilding the packages that depend on it' philosophy of portupgrade. I have used it until recently, and have been bitten once by a gettext library mismatch too. I now use the -r and -R options of portupgrade, which are useful after all; even if, as you said later, you are bound to compile more than needed. > It would be cool if portupgrade kept a database of packages whose > dependencies have been update, perhaps with an option to update those > in topological-sort order. When upgrading a package, anything that That is what the -rR options are for. The combination of portupgrade, portversion and pkgdb are very useful. portsdb and portsclean are, to a lesser extent. sysutils/libchk may prove useful too. -- olive To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message