Numerous unpleasant surprises in latest portupgrade

Jack Raats jack at jarasoft.net
Tue Feb 12 19:03:35 UTC 2008


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> I have noticed it doesn't chase *any* dependencies that need upgrading
> if the base port specified doesn't need updating.  For example, if  pcre
> is outdated and I do "portupgrade -Rrv postfix" it will do  nothing unless
> postfix itself needs updating too, even though it is a  dependency.
>
> This is very un-useful behavior.

try portupgrade -Na and it tries to upgrade portsI never installed... That's
strange behaviour...

Jack

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