On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:40:50PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mark Shepard wrote:
>
> > I _like_ the idea of a email-summary of "What's New in the World of Ports".
>
> We used to have this. I think it morphed into the webpage mutation we
> have now (note you can request all the changed ports in the last X time
> frame).
>
> Maybe it's posted to the -ports mailing list?
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=580888+0+archive/1999/freebsd-ports/19990919.freebsd-ports
>
> > - Before I do a "make install", is there some way to
> > find out exactly which dependencies of the port I'm installing are also
> > going to need to be upgraded?
>
> I think a 'make checkdep' type target to run the dependency check w/o
> actually building them would be a plus. This should be very easy to do w/
> the current bsd.port.mk frame.
make package-depends might be what you're looking for.
-Chris
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