Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

[Philip Hallstrom]

> Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>> Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on 
>>> my machine?
>>> 
>>> Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its 
>>> requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its 
>>> requirements and what I already have on my machine.  If I have 7 out of 
>>> the 10 requirements.... I would like the remaining 3 listed for me.
>>> 
>>> Is there something in place which provides this?
>> 
>> 
>> The "portupgrade" port can do this.  Something like...
>> 
>> portupgrade -n -Rr someport
>> 
>> The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do.
>> 
>> The -r and -R tell it to upgrade any dependencies in both directions.
>> 
>> At the end it will print out a little summary of what ports it needs to 
>> upgrade, what needs installed, and what you've already got.
> This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it.  But its giving me 
> difficulties.
>
> I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR "x11-fm/rox-filer"` for example.  I know I 
> have most, but not all, of what is needed by rox-filer.  I was hoping to see 
> a concise list of things I am missing (and would therefore be installed).  In 
> my example I used the `-N` switch because the man page sounded like that what 
> was needed when the port is not currently installed (which is my situation).
>
> But portupgrade reports
> --->  Session started at: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:07 -0500
> Install 'x11-fm/rox-filer'? [no]
> --->  Session ended at: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:07 -0500 (consumed 00:00:00)
>
> What am I doing wrong?

That I can't help you with... maybe there's more options (verbose mode?) 
that would show it... I tend to only use portupgrade for upgrading already 
installed ports...