On 3 January 2011 18:39, Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, ill...@gmail.com <ill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 January 2011 17:54, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote:
>> > so can i just ask, is portmaster or another port upgrading tool
>> > recommended over portupgrade now because i'm going to be upgrading all my
>> > ports soon and in the 18 months i've been using FreeBSD i've always used
>> > portupgrade but sounds like it's best to change now.
>> >
>> > jamie
>>
>> Unless you particularly despise some aspect
>> or feature of portupgrade, I can see little point
>> in switching.
>>
>> Portmaster has the advantage of not requiring
>> ruby or an external database, but the disadvan-
>> tage of not having an equivalent of
>> # portupgrade -Rf
>> (at least last time I used it)
>>
>
>
> man portmaster reveals
>
> [-R] -f
> always rebuild ports (overrides -i)
>
>
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.
Example scenario: firefox is failing to start & keeps
throwing weird gtk errors, even after rebuilding gtk &
firefox. So you issue "portupgrade -Rf firefox\*".
Well, it has fixed stuff in the dim & distant past, any
way.
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