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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