From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 21 13:40:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B980837B409 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 13:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4LKfSCv075085; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:41:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g4LKfR2g075082; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:41:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:41:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Joe Kelsey Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to keep gnome up-to-date In-Reply-To: <3CEAAD85.8070401@flyingcroc.net> Message-ID: <20020521164109.U73657-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc On Tue, 21 May 2002, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Joe Clarke wrote: > > > > > > >To get to a clean state, I can do a pkg_deinstall -fr pkgconfig, and that > >removes almost everything GNOME related (there maybe a few ports left over > >after that). When I build GNOME from scratch, I simply do: > > > > > How am I supposed to know the root of any particular dependency tree? > > It is so much easier to know the top, as in portupgrade -R gnome since > it is obvious to anyone that the meta-port is the place to start. > > It is completely un-intuitive to expect anyone to do it in reverse, > unless the port* tools provide the necessary clues, or some other file > provides the clue, such as the meta-port, for instance? > > ># cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome > ># make clean > ># make install clean > > > > > > But this does not help for an upgrade. How do I know that the root of > gnome is pkgconfig, something which does not contain the word gnome > anywhere in it? Take a look at FAQ 4 at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq.html Joe > > >I don't mean to sound difficult. I realize you're frustrated. I'll do my > >best to help as much as I can. It sounds like sobomax's port system fixes > >will make this kind of thing much easier in the future. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message