the art of pkgdb -F

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 28/03/07, Joel Hatton <freebsd-questions at auscert.org.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> >
> >Now, I've been upgrading ports via
> >
> >portupgrade -R <port>
> >
> >as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require
> >those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it?
>
> Be careful with your syntax: '-R' isn't consistent between pkg_info and
> portupgrade:  Running 'pkg_info -R' will downward recurse, or show
> dependencies of the port in question, but 'portupgrade -R' will upward
> recurse and upgrade every port on which it depends - which often causes a
> _lot_ of ports to be rebuilt and is, in fact, the opposite of your
> description above. I've been caught by this before...

In fact, as frequently the build looks for
a binary, and portupgrade checks
/var/db/pkg there can be some quite
exciting results from a portupgrade -R
if you have alternate dependancies.

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