Portupgrade still broken?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 9 23:35:30 UTC 2009


Chris Rees wrote:
> Dear all on freebsd-ports@,
> 
> I recall from http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-March/047319.html
> that there was a bug in portupgrade last year, causing it to break
> when a port is recursively (-R) upgraded; it's surfacing for me too :(

Assuming you are talking about the feature of rebuilding ports that
depend on a given port, you might want to give portmaster a try. The
-r option will do what you want. You can also combine -r with -i to
only rebuild certain ports that depend on the given port.


hth,

Doug

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