[FYI] Fwd: cvs commit: ports UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.python.mk

[b. f.]

On 3/5/11, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Does it rebuild all depending packages?
>>
>>And waht is the difference between make upgrade-site-packages and
>>portupgrade -r python?
>
> As I explained earlier on freebsd-python@, unlike 'portupgrade -r
> python', the upgrade-site-packages target just rebuilds ports that
> have files in the library directories belonging to non-default
> versions of python, and ports that in turn depend upon them, not
> necessarily every port that lists python as a dependency.

Sorry, I should clarify this.  Above, I meant to write:

... and _not_ necessarily ports that in turn depend upon them, or
every port that lists python as a dependency.

> upgrade-site-packages is for your convenience, to rebuild a (probably)
> smaller collection of ports that are most likely to need rebuilding
> after a change in default python versions.

b.