On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:36:11PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I recently noticed if I update a package from ports, the package manager > >looses the dependency data for the package. eg: updating old version of > >gettext > > > ># pkg_info -R gett* > >Information for gettext-0.14.5_1: > >Required by: > >libgpg-error-1.1 > >libgcrypt-1.2.2 > >gnutls-1.2.9 > >p5-gettext-1.03 > >gmake-3.80_2 > > > >[[[ update from ports - make ; make deinstall ; make reinstall ]]] > > > ># pkg_info -R gett* > >Information for gettext-0.14.5_2: > > > >Is my procedure incorrect, or is this normal behavior? > > > > -Thanks, Wayne > > This is normal. It's what makes upgrading those ports that are required > by lots of other ports so difficult. > Dependency information is version-specific. > > If you run "pkg_info -r libgpg-error-1.1" you'll find that it still > depends on gettext-0.14.5_1 until you rebuild libgpg-error. > > Last weekend I wrote some scripts to help me deal with stale dependencies > like this. My code is such an ugly perl hack that I'm ashamed to post it, > and my algorithm isn't really airtight, but I'll give you the algorithm > I'm using. The script just uses pkg_info, pkg_version, and grep.
Sounds like you're reinventing the wheel..portupgrade does all this and more. Kris
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