From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 15 03:45:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA1ACAF for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x22f.google.com (mail-pd0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21FB32C85 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id q10so8221296pdj.20 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:45:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XBVNit0kqWAXvza3ppZMwtZsJFOFDs8ioESjZqY6U5M=; b=Yy+l4L5BScSMkoJvDmQXsqEo8X+GhyA0quGMLA9ZtkFqWXSuQPrnvaISb5+POUOABI jIgtvzmXok+MHFVggfFUMPf57xFuobIBDWrzlFYkpOdGbnL5IGk2q60zaaeuUu/wzifc mO5bHmno9b3dRAAHMdHlNTpoQ/p+mNt4A5IetBexUfyuUOEKFpf7WdtBC7yWbmfaoZtr s+mqi74VTro1cpcYTe8fEuaGyaoD+DO5BzpyhvxSW6+8EkSQ2fayvMpYAbcw2btddoxe yzLcbM7Y74fLEquo8YRMqx1nq/Ytr6hDlVve7caH9im7o01Fe7Ut4fxMFUIISr8X+uCW K/EA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.253.67 with SMTP id zy3mr6393220pbc.137.1381808713713; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.92.79 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:45:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20131015024805.58185.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20131013200236.7874.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131015024805.58185.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:45:13 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports From: Adam Vande More To: Scott Ballantyne Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:45:14 -0000 On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > > It does seem like a bit > > > of over-kill to quit updating ALL ports because one is long > > > gone. Seems like it could do the others. > > > > > > > So it should continue on and potentially build 1000's of ports with > broken > > linking and dependencies? Portupgrade will do this if you tell it. Try > it > > out and see what fun you can create. > > > > Not a single program on my system depended on that program being > rebuilt. And what about libs it may have left behind and other ports picking up faulty info? Then you build unsupported and faultly packages and complain to the list when something doesn't work. Just follow /usr/ports/UPDATING as advised instead of your "shortcuts". > Portmaster should certainly refuse to rebuild anything that > did, of course. Exactly what it did. -- Adam Vande More