Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:53:28 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg replacement for pkg_sort? Message-ID: <20822.64616.161229.523272@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <5156F80B.1030804@FreeBSD.org> References: <20822.58886.729409.831590@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <5156F80B.1030804@FreeBSD.org>
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Matthew Seaman writes: > On 30/03/2013 13:17, Robert Huff wrote: > > > Am I too much of a zombie this morning, or is there nothing in > > the man page about how to do this? > > That's not functionality provided by pkgng at the moment, > although pkgng certainly has all the necessary data in repository > catalogues etc. to be able to sort a list of package origins with > all dependencies occurring before what requires them. No one has > implemented that yet. > > However, pkg_sort(1) is part of portupgrade, and portupgrade > should be fully pkgng aware nowadays. Did you try just using > pkg_sort? I did and do. I'm trying to move to a single tool for this set of tasks, and pkg_sort is one of the (very) few things I haven't been able to replace. Unfortunately, that functionality is essential to several scripts .... The other irreplaceable I can think of is "portsclean", particularly the C, D, and L options. > If you'ld like something to be changed about either portupgrade > or pkgng in respect to this, then please open an issue -- > > https://github.com/pkgtools/pkgtools/issues > https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/issues Depends on how lazy I'm feeling at the moment. :-) Robert Huff
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