portmaster -s text (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped)

Cezary Morga cm at therek.net
Fri Jul 31 06:02:01 UTC 2009


Doug Barton pisze:
> I can't speak for portupgrade but the vast majority of time with 
> portmaster is actually spent building the port. The updating of 
> /var/db/pkg is trivial in comparison. What portmaster does that 
> bsd.port.mk by itself does not is allow you to update dependencies in 
> place instead of having to uninstall the things that depend on them first, 
> then reinstall them after the update.

Actually, 'make deinstall' deinstalls given port without removing ports 
that depends on it.

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Cezary Morga


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