Comments on todays non-NEW_XORG update

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

30.09.2013 02:37, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
> It is done here, for the most part.  (Epiphany remains out of the picture, persistent failure to build webkit...) but
>
> there were a few quirks...
> The reinstall of gtk20 (which was newly missing a dependency) depended upon ibus for the install, but ibus depends
> on gtk20...
>
> gtk20 )  make -k install
> ibus ) pkg_delete && make package
> gtk20 ) make package
>
> And the rebuild of roxterm, which was missing a vte rebuild, which was missing a pango rebuild.   This occurs
> here at least once a year or so...
>
> Here UPDATING usually cannot be followed...  that lists over 300 ports needing pixman; I only
> use several of them daily, and only had to rebuild a few.
>
> I'm used to these unexpected less-than-full-rebuild extra-rebuilds occuring,  but am wondering if FreeBSD could more
> precisely anticipate them in the UPDATING instructions someday.  [Revising the "portmaster -r pixman" since that may take
> several days, and in two hours I'm already done with it AFAIK.]
>
> [Tangentally, has anyone using pkg only, run across the same situation and resolved it with any ease and repeatable
> instructions to the ports list??? ]

I'm aways using pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts to check system 
after update. I gives a number of false positives but besides that it's 
quite sharp on what ports really deserve rebuilding.

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