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On 07/11/2011 18:30, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:49:09PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> ...
> 
>> I know that you already got some advice on dealing with the specific
>> port that failed, but I wanted to add that 'portmaster -R -r icu' is
>> probably what you want to do next. That will avoid rebuilding the ports
>> that did build successfully last time, as well as (hopefully) avoiding
>> having to rebuild icu again. The -[dD] options are completely
>> independent of the -r stuff.
> 
> I recalled the use of -R, but I wasn't sure how well it would play with
> the intervening (manual)
> 
> pkg_delete -f avahi-app-0.6.29
> 
> that I had issued.

This kind of situation is exactly the reason for the -R option.
Sometimes things need to be fixed manually, and it's nice to not have to
start over completely from scratch.

> And while re-building/installing devel/icu wasn't really optimal,
> it wasn't a big deal, either.  Had it been, say www/firefox,
> www/webkit-gtk2, or lang/gcc45 that wanted rebuilding, well.... :-}

True, but -R also avoids having to re-re-build the ports that depend on
icu that re-built successfully the first time through.


hth,

Doug

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