FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20040529

[Roop Nanuwa]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:25:03 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Actually, it looks to me like portinstall/portupgrade just issues a
> "make install" for the highest level dependency it can and lets the
> usual bsd.ports.mk port dependency stuff do all the work, so it doesn't
> have control over what happens in between those builds.  I suspect
> changing that would require making portinstall/portupgrade a lot smarter
> (and then potentially having to update them every time bsd.ports.mk
> changes, since it can no longer let bsd.ports.mk do the heavy lifting).

I was worried that would be the case. I looked over the feature set and there
was a line about how the portupgrade tools can follow dependency trees so I
thought there might be a chance it did handle things a bit "smarter".

--roop