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Date:      Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:16:22 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        James Long <stable@museum.rain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade: should it recursively follow dependencies?
Message-ID:  <45491CB6.7050705@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061101025653.GA97924@ns.umpquanet.com>
References:  <20061101025653.GA97924@ns.umpquanet.com>

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James Long wrote:
> I've rebuilt my pkgdb:

> And I happen to know that devel/p5-Test-Exception is out of date.
> This port is a dependency of a dependency of www/rt (3.4.5).

I think you mean www/rt34.

> portupgrade sees that rt depends on p5-Test-WWW-Mechanize:

> But it does not see that p5-Test-Exception is (by recursion) also
> a dependency:

> Is this a problem or do I need adjust my expectations?  :)

If I understand what you're asking for, then portmaster does this. You
might want to give it a try. You should read the man page first
though, since a lot of the options are different.

hth,

Doug

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