From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 12 21:42:20 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391A81326EAA for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F11682854 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:42:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id wBCLgAlA003479; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:42:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Subject: Re: Forcing port reinstalls without rebuilding over and over again To: Polytropon , Paul Schmehl Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: <47758EF2A172AE3BCA2F6E66@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <1793865D5AEE79C2FC27331F@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20181212204151.659fb436.freebsd@edvax.de> <296D11C4E1B5870932452073@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20181212214714.4017e195.freebsd@edvax.de> Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: <5116e02a-79e8-d0c5-89c7-88b80effd693@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:42:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181212214714.4017e195.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:42:11 -0700 (MST) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 0F11682854 X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@dreamchaser.org designates 66.109.141.57 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@dreamchaser.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.09 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dreamchaser.org]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: nightmare.dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.978,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.80)[ip: (-7.32), ipnet: 66.109.128.0/19(-3.66), asn: 21947(-2.93), country: US(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21947, ipnet:66.109.128.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:42:20 -0000 On 12/12/18 1:47 PM, Polytropon wrote: > In my opinion, it's a little better to create your own > "top ports list" instead of saving the current state (or > at least have both lists at hand, but only use your own). > In that "top ports list", you list the things you actually > want to use, and you do not care about their depencencies, > simply because portmaster can resolve them on its own. So > first, your list is much more readable (as it will only > contain the software you are interested in, and nothing > of the software you might need to build or run them), and > second, your list will be much more portable and also deal > with the "port not needed, but still installed" problem > described above. That is the way I've done it in the past, using -R -d, and doing so does not rebuild dependencies. I suspect the problem has something to do with -a. Gary