Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:08:06 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@gnix.co.uk>, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade status Message-ID: <op.vounfqwf0cf2rk@jud-finks-macbook-pro.local> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101040857240.12689@wonkity.com> References: <14212432ba707fc5f9fbc75b56e8e783@flabnapple.net> <20101226214221.GB68570@stainmore> <AANLkTi=bD60UiybsaioHwEDgsXAQpAeJ6VuPiDvSZ%2B0P@mail.gmail.com> <86pqsogfvu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4D186D11.1030708@infracaninophile.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012271354470.35608@fledge.watson.org> <20110103225455.GA37597@daemon.gnix.co.uk> <AANLkTimngzkkfbFnego5MP50xHLS0NHvnL9to0V3pQTT@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikTi2J-cCzryFEG4cZvDCQxn83ycJ_1AnzO-QJi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimBnm9BKCc3LmgL0WCXWRrNMgvx%2BkwwrfQ%2BUGgO@mail.gmail.com> <4D22DB01.4080600@infracaninophile.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101040857240.12689@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:04:03 -0500, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> On 04/01/2011 00:51, illoai@gmail.com wrote:
>>> No, the -R flag in portmaster tells it to not rebuild
>>> ports taht have already been built on this run (I
>>> believe from reading man portmaster). The -R
>>> flag in portupgrade rebuilds the ports on which
>>> the named port depends
>>> -R
>>> --upward-recursive Act on all those packages required by the given
>>> packages as well. (When specified with -F,
>>> fetch
>>> recursively, including the brand new,
>>> uninstalled
>>> ports that an upgraded port requires)
>>>
>>> I don't see any equivalent functionality for portmaster,
>>> sadly.
>>
>> This is actually portmaster's default behaviour. So:
>>
>> portupgrade -R foo/bar is equivalent to portmaster foo/bar
>>
>> portupgrade -fRr foo/bar is equivalent to portmaster -fr foo/bar
>
> I'm not seeing where portmaster has the portupgrade -R functionality
> ("rebuild this port and those it depends on").
>
> portmaster(8) says "The focus of this tool is to keep the dependency
> tracking information for your ports up to date. This allows you to
> safely update a specific port without having to update all of the ports
> "above" it."
>
> That would make the default action equivalent to portupgrade's -r option
> ("rebuild this port and all those that depend on it").
>
> What have I missed?
I agree the quoted passage might admit of more than one interpretation,
but here is what I think it's saying:
Portmaster will automagically update the dependencies for the port you
select (= portupgrade -R). Thus there is no need to update the ports that
depend on the one you have selected (= portupgrade -r), since all
downstream dependencies will be taken care of by default whenever you run
portmaster against any of these upstream ports.
Jud
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