Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:18 +1000 From: Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F Message-ID: <200703290129.l2T1TIoN068066@app.auscert.org.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400." <20070329003400.GV11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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Hi, On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > >Now, I've been upgrading ports via > >portupgrade -R <port> > >as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require >those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it? Be careful with your syntax: '-R' isn't consistent between pkg_info and portupgrade: Running 'pkg_info -R' will downward recurse, or show dependencies of the port in question, but 'portupgrade -R' will upward recurse and upgrade every port on which it depends - which often causes a _lot_ of ports to be rebuilt and is, in fact, the opposite of your description above. I've been caught by this before... regards -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland | WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072 Australia | Email: auscert@auscert.org.au
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