upgrading ports with a lot of dependencies

Jamie Paul Griffin jamie at kode5.net
Wed Aug 29 17:50:58 UTC 2012


[ Kevin Oberman wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 17:37:17 -0700 ]

 
> And, as I mention rather often, pkg-libchk from
> sysutils/bsdadminscripts can save you from rebuilding a LOT of ports.
> pkg_libchk -o | grep LIBNAME | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq > dep-ports
> (where LIBNAM is the sharable (.so) installed by the port in question)
> portmaster -D `cat dep-ports`

Like the sound of that, will definitely try that out.


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