portmaster -w -r (pcre & icu): how to avoid redundant rebuilding?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 22 16:19:05 UTC 2013


On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:35:04 -0600
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:

> On 01/22/13 06:26, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I see in the UPDATING file that I need to rebuild all ports that
> > depend on pcre and icu:
> >
> > portmaster -w -r pcre
> > and
> > portmaster -w -r icu
> > (I don't need -f ?)
> >
> > How do I do this without rebuilding the same ports twice?
> >
> > I am on pkgng, so I can use
> > pkg info -r icu
> > and same for pcre to list ports depending on icu and pcre (long
> > lists).
> >
> > I just updated, from source, to:
> >
> >
> > FreeBSD amelia2 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #14 r245542: Tue Jan
> > 22 03:00:31 UTC 2013     root at amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY
> > amd64
> >
> > Tom
> 
> I've not had any luck with avoiding redundant rebuilding as pcre and
> icu updates aren't sent out at the same time. Perhaps someone can say
> if I'm off my rocker, has anyone tried issuing 'portmaster -w -r icu
> pcre'? 

I don't use portmaster, so I can't say for sure, but the man page says 

  [-R] -r name/glob of port directory in /var/db/pkg
         rebuild the specified port, and all ports that depend on it.
         ... The -r option can be specified more than once.



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