portupgrade -R order
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Tue May 19 16:28:55 UTC 2009
Andrea Venturoli writes:
> I have a question about the order in which portupgrade -R handles ports.
>
> If I issue:
> portupgrade -R it-openoffice.org
>
> it will upgrade openoffice.org, *then* gcc43.
>
> I would guess openoffice.org requires gcc43 to build, but then,
> shouldn't it be handled *before*?
>
> (This is only an example, it happens with other ports too).
1) I can confirm this is not unique to OpenOffice; it's
currently happening to me with bash.
2) Does OpenOffice require gcc-4.3.4? Not according to
"pkg_info -r". It might be an indirect dependency, but then one
would expect things to still build in the correct order.
Robert Huff
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