Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

Eric Schuele e.schuele at computer.org
Mon May 2 07:42:27 PDT 2005


Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 4:25 PM -0500 4/30/05, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
>> Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The "portupgrade" port can do this.  Something like...
>>>
>>> portupgrade -n -Rr someport
>>>
>>> The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do.
>>
>>
>> This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it.  But its giving
>> me difficulties.
>>
>> I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR "x11-fm/rox-filer"` for example.
> 
> 
> I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you
> have already installed.  It keeps a database of already-installed
> ports, and that's what it is using to track '-Rr'.  Or at least,
> 'portupgrade -nN' never does anything useful for me, even though it
> is very useful to do 'portupgrade -n -Rr' when upgrading ports you
> have already installed.
> 

Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to.

I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell script 
away.... I'm just not that savvy though.  If I can't find something 
which already does what I'm looking for.... I'll muddle through writing 
a script to do it.

-- 
Regards,
Eric


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