Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:19:04 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2 Message-ID: <XFMail.20060204151904.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0602041256w60d18a24mf74f8e111faae44@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04-Feb-2006 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 2/4/06, Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> wrote: >> /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 >> run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of >> its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run >> portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identified? > > Yes. Tediously. I have about 74 things that depend on expat. > Or you could ignore the whole thing until something important > depending on expat needs upgrading and do the mess then. > Firefox might count as this, maybe X. Both of which seem to > have updates this last week. > >> I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a >> dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in >> this situation. > > Shouldn't matter for most of them if you didn't delete your distfiles > as they are merely(!) being rebuilt with expat 2. If you deleted your > distfiles, or close with make distclean you will have to download > them anew, sadly. Good point. This is why I *never* use the "distclean" target. Instead, I do a periodic "portsclean -CDD" (man portsclean). -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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