portupgrade question

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Wed Jul 8 20:00:31 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote:
> THat's the point !
> 
> isnt that -R implied by -N ?
> 
> From the portupgrade  man page 
> 
> 
> [...]
> -N
> --new
>  	Install a new port/package when a specified package is not installed. Prior
> 	to the installation a new port/package, all the required packages are
> 	upgraded.

No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up
to date.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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