Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:58:14 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need a reality check: "portmaster --list-origins" misses entries? Message-ID: <5053D2A6.2030405@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <20120914223800.GG3357@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20120914223800.GG3357@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On 9/14/2012 5:38 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: > I am tentatively planning on rebuilding the installed ports on my laptop > under stable/9 (vs. their current stable/8) on Sunday, to take advantage > of several hours of travel time expected. > > In preparation for this, I was reviewing the steps listed at the end of > portmaster(8) "Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all > your ports" (which I have used to good effect in the past -- e.g., in > the migration from 7-STABLE to 8-STABLE). > > As a reality check, I created the output of "portmaster --list-origins", > with the intent to re-order the entries (and remove several that were > brought in merely as dependencies -- and that I'd happily do without, > were it feasible). > > I was thus surprised to fail to find "subversion" listed; a further > reality check showed that the output was (only) 181 lines long; compare: > > d134(9.1-P)[8] portmaster --list-origins | wc -l > 181 IIUC this is the list of all ports that are not required by another port. So 'subversion' is being required by another port. Assuming you also copy your /var/db/options over to the new machine, and install every port listed in '--list-origins', you should end up with the same 796 ports installed as those 181 will install all of the other ports. > d134(9.1-P)[9] ls /var/db/pkg/ | wc -l > 796 > d134(9.1-P)[10] find /var/db/pkg -type f -name +CONTENTS -print0 | xargs -0 grep -hw ORIGIN | sed -e 's/^@comment ORIGIN://' | wc -l > 796 > d134(9.1-P)[11] > > The machine in question was running: > > FreeBSD g1-227.catwhisker.org 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #453 240462M: Thu Sep 13 04:25:26 PDT 2012 root@g1-227.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 > > when the ports were last updated, and is presently running: > > FreeBSD g1-227.catwhisker.org 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #245 240493M: Fri Sep 14 05:13:23 PDT 2012 root@g1-227.catwhisker.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 > > > My ports tree is at r304266; the installed ports are all up-to-date > with respect to that. > > Aam I doing something obviously silly or stupid? > > Thanks.... > > Peace, > david > -- Regards, Bryan Drewery bdrewery@freenode/EFNet
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