portupgrade question

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 14:07:04 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 13 April 2005 11:53 am, Sean McNeil wrote:
> I am trying to keep my /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg directory clean and
> would like to know the best way to accomplish this.  I was hoping there
> was a way to tell portupgrade to update any ports that are depenent on
> one that has been updated.  This doesn't do what I'm looking for,
> however, and I just end up with missing compat libraries:
>
> 	portupgrade -aru
>
> I guess I have to somehow force the update of packages that depend on a
> package just updated.  Is there any way I can accomplish this?
>
> Sean


I'm not sure what you mean by keeping /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg "clean" but
sysutils/portmanager will solve the second part of your question "I guess I 
have to somehow force the update of packages that depend on a package just 
updated" 

-Mike


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