Check constistency of the installed ports

O. Hartmann ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Tue Sep 27 06:11:24 UTC 2016


As a user of ports-mgmt/portmaster, I face very often the situation with this
tool, that it fails in the very last stage of registering an installation or
update of a port. So it happens to, for example, updates for print/tex-xetex
and somehow (not being aware of) print/tex-luatex. Anyway, if someone skips the
error messages produced by portmaster - like me by rerunning portmaster again -
the installed ports are somehow inconsistent. Rerunning "portmaster
texlive-full" reveals the obvious:

===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
        Re-install texlive-full-20150521
        Install print/tex-luatex
        Install print/tex-xetex

I use "old-style" port building via compiler and and the sources in the ports
tree. This is due to a lot of individual configurations and personal likes. I
mention this avoiding people delegating me towards "pkg" for this task.

The major question is: I sthere a way to check the consistency of the installed
ports to reveal such gaps as shown above?

Thank you very much in advance for the time taken to answer, please CC me, I do
not subscribe the list.

Kind regards,

Oliver


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