recommendation instead of portmanager

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jan 12 02:18:35 UTC 2013


On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Artifex Maximus wrote:

> I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch. Is
> there any similar program with such option? I am asking because portmanager
> is gone from ports tree.
>
> "   -p or --pristine        Updates a port if any dependency in it's
>                                /var/db/pkg/{port name}/+CONTENTS does not
>                                match what is installed. The effect is when
> a
>                                port is updated, any port who uses the
> updated
>                                port in it's dependency chain, no matter how
>                                deep, are rebuilt. Normally only ports one
>                                level up are rebuilt."

pkg_info -g could be used to detect port files that don't match their 
checksum.  That's not foolproof...

Then use portupgrade -rf or portmaster -r on that port.


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