portmaster is not always recursive

[Doug Barton]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I have seen similar problem in the past with amavisd-new + spamassassin
> and their dependencies, but it is much bigger and complicated tree of
> dependencies and I have not evidence recorded for it.
> Reported case with jpeg / gd / png is the simplest one I have seen.

Were these other cases also with the -r option, or were they when
doing "regular" upgrades?

> PS: Thanks for your work on my favourite ports-mgmt tool = portmaster ;)

You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words. :)


Doug

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