Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:49:40 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages? Message-ID: <44slic6o6z.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200609280432.54612.bob@tania.servebbs.org> (bob@tania.servebbs.org's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:32:53 -0400") References: <200609280412.51064.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <451B8666.4030909@inode.at> <200609280432.54612.bob@tania.servebbs.org>
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Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org> writes: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 04:23, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > >> That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies >> (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) > > Likely they do; Mozilla, Seamonkey, Opera, and Firefox. (all flagged in my > security audit) Was hoping to do them all at once. > >> (smp etc is >> excluded from this assumption) > > Yeah, running SMP, so cpu is not a problem. But bumping into deps may very > well be. I have synched-up my ports tree, and have also done portupgrade -Fa > so all the sources, as well as any deps are already here. However, I fear > several packages may need the same dep, and all try to upgrade it at the same > time.... would make a mess! > > I don't think portupgrade is smart enough to detect multiple upgrades, at > least I have not seen any reference in the docs. > > Thanks! guess I will just so one a night, some of these are pretty BIG. You could look over the dependencies and figure out the conflicts by hand. One way to do that would be to use "portupgrade -n" on the different major packages, and compare the results. Or maybe sysutils/gpkgdep would be easier for you to figure out the overlaps from...
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