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Subject: Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports
 that actually NEED it?
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On 06/25/12 10:40, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8
>> to 3.8.13.  By all estimations, this is a minor bump.
>>
>> Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as
>> the libtool2.4 fun.  With normal portupgrade, this forces you to go fix
>> the dependent port.
>>
>> Finally, I just applied -r, which should update all dependent packages,
>> but it seems to upgrade them unconditionally.
>
> "-r" will upgrade all dependent ports *if* a newer version is available.
> "-rf" will upgrade all dependent ports unconditionally.
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>> You would think there's an option to portupgrade that says "don't
>> upgrade every single package I've got, but if somewhere in the
>> dependency chain I need a newer version of a thing, then do it."
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.
> I guess you waned "portupgrade -R rt", which will upgrade all ports rt
               ^^^^^
               wanted
> is depending on.
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> HTH.
>
>   bye
>      av.