portmaster is not always recursive

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 17 21:35:20 UTC 2009


Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some problem with portmaster.
> If I do upgrade of graphics/gd, portmaster check and upgrade all
> dependencies of gd (png, jpeg, pkg-config, freetype) but if upgrade of
> gd is called by upward recursive upgrade of jpeg library, I end up with
> new jpeg, new gd, new mrtg, but old png. It means that png was not
> upgraded as dependency of gd.

If png needed to be upgraded it should have been upgraded as a
dependency of gd even when using -r. I'll look into this, thanks for
your very detailed problem report.


Doug

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