On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:04:03 -0500, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com>
wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 04/01/2011 00:51, ill...@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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