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

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 4:25 PM -0500 4/30/05, Eric Schuele wrote:
>Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
>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 believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you
have already installed.  It keeps a database of already-installed
ports, and that's what it is using to track '-Rr'.  Or at least,
'portupgrade -nN' never does anything useful for me, even though it
is very useful to do 'portupgrade -n -Rr' when upgrading ports you
have already installed.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu