recommendation instead of portmanager

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 15 01:16:20 UTC 2013


On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:08 -0800
David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Artifex Maximus
> <artifexor at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > 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."
> >
> 
> I think "portupgrade --recursive" will do what you want.

It doesn't


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