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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:27:11 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port/package install preview
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050913400.50593@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <29722c131003050743i4da11f4ak897ec813b48d30df@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Anselm Strauss wrote:

> 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.

It shows what portupgrade would do, which is nothing if that port isn't 
already installed.  If you're looking at installing a new port, 
portinstall may act differently.

But I prefer to just cd to the port directory and do 'make missing'. 
'make fetch-list' will show the fetch commands.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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