portmaster question
RW
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Tue Nov 9 00:21:49 UTC 2010
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:50:21 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, RW wrote:
>
> > -aRr isn't implied by -a, the rR options are ignored in the former.
> >
> > I think it's fairly clear that recursing through installed
> > packages with consistent dependecies isn't going to find a package
> > that isn't in the set of all installed packages.
>
> That sentence makes me a little dizzy. I think you mean that since
> -a is equivalent to listing all packages on the command line, -r or
> -R are redundant.
>
> So portupgrade \* (i.e., -a) is a superset of
>
> portupgrade -r libexample
>
> because all the dependencies of libexample are included in the \* and
> so portupgrade will see they need to be updated because a port they
> depend on has been updated... Right?
yes
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