Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:14:12 +0100 From: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> To: daniele <glimp@live.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port/package install preview Message-ID: <29722c131003050814i46cff405s5996768dd94f653f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP591A2AB12EB7AE35CD2742DC380@phx.gbl> References: <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP591A2AB12EB7AE35CD2742DC380@phx.gbl>
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That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports also incorporate the current state of installed packages? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM, daniele <glimp@live.com> wrote: > On 03/05/10 16:43, Anselm Strauss wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all >> ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. >> The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be >> done >> with packages? pkg_add would have to download all packges first to be able >> to calculate all dependencies, or can it operate on an index file? >> >> Anselm >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> Hello ! > > Take a look at the 'ports' manpage and you will find a mean on how to get > useful information on the ports collection (configuring building discover > dependencies etc..) : > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html > > Examples > > * fetch-list > Show list of files to be fetched in order to build the port. > > * run-depends-list, build-depends-list > Print a list of all the compile and run dependencies, > and dependencies of those dependencies, by port directory. > > etc... > > d >
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