Need testers: modifying ports so dependencies are automatically
updated at make install time
Frank Laszlo
laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Tue Jan 3 07:07:28 PST 2006
Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>
>> I put together a PR that modifies a port so that when:
>>
>> make or make install
>>
>> is run, if any of the ports dependencies are out of date
>> they are updated first before installing the port. Another
>
> That would be problematic for me. There are times when an updated
> port suffers a regression and automagically upgrading it without an
> escape clause is bad.
>
Probably would be better off having it off by default, and a knob to
turn it on. i.e. "make PORT_AUTOSUP=yes install clean"
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