Comments on todays non-NEW_XORG update

Jeffrey Bouquet jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 29 23:37:31 UTC 2013


It is done here, for the most part.  (Epiphany remains out of the picture, persistent failure to build webkit...) but

there were a few quirks...
The reinstall of gtk20 (which was newly missing a dependency) depended upon ibus for the install, but ibus depends
on gtk20... 

gtk20 )  make -k install
ibus ) pkg_delete && make package
gtk20 ) make package

And the rebuild of roxterm, which was missing a vte rebuild, which was missing a pango rebuild.   This occurs
here at least once a year or so... 

Here UPDATING usually cannot be followed...  that lists over 300 ports needing pixman; I only
use several of them daily, and only had to rebuild a few. 

I'm used to these unexpected less-than-full-rebuild extra-rebuilds occuring,  but am wondering if FreeBSD could more
precisely anticipate them in the UPDATING instructions someday.  [Revising the "portmaster -r pixman" since that may take
several days, and in two hours I'm already done with it AFAIK.] 
 
[Tangentally, has anyone using pkg only, run across the same situation and resolved it with any ease and repeatable
instructions to the ports list??? ] 
 
J. Bouquet


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