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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:06:33 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portupgrade mess
Message-ID:  <20030314030633.GA5132@raggedclown.net>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:54:03PM -0500, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote:
> At 11:22 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >I forced the portugrade of imake. That also rebuilt kde-3. I have found
> >that if you don't force, it only updates the ports that have changed.
> >It doesn't take care of the full b-dep dependancy list.
> 
> Hmmm... now, that's interesting.
> 
It is more than interesting, it is something I have vaguely moaned
about already. Portupgrade does not handle the so called meta-ports at
all well. Anything like KDE and Gnome as well I suppose, forget it.

> I did portupgrade of imake (without any special options) before upgrading 
> XFree86 as I needed to use the computer (WinXP) and had to wait until off 
> hours to upgrade the rest. So, I'm wondering if that did not mess up 
> something. I did notice that KDE3 was up-to-date and did not need 
> upgrading, but I caught something about KDE3 upgrade on one of the 
> computers. Does that mean that imake is reponsible somehow for upgrading 
> KDE3?
> What is the switch to force the upgrade?
> How did the upgrade of imake lead to the rebuild of kde-3?
>
I asked myself this very same question several months ago. No answers
came forth.
 
> BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's 
> max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated and 
> I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there...
> 
Delete everything in "/usr/ports/distfiles".
And before you go to bed one night do a "make clean" from "/usr/ports".
It takes .... some time...


-- 
Regards
   Cliff

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