On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 04:27:30PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > ... > One disadvantage (or is it an advantage? I'm never sure) of the fact > that portmaster does not maintain state between runs is behavior like > you're seeing here.
Fair enough. > To answer your question, assuming that everything > went well with the -o command, there is no reason that portmaster would > have to build the port again. The -r option needs an up to date > +REQUIRED_BY, which is a side effect of (re)building it; but the above > could just as easily be written: > > portmaster -o www/neon29 www/neon28 > portmaster --check-depends > portmaster `cat /var/db/pkg/neon29-0.29.3_2/+REQUIRED_BY` > > I often get the request for this feature (a -r that doesn't rebuild the > port) but have never found the time to work on it. I'll try to get > around to it soonish. Actually, if the instructions in UPDATING were written as you described up there, that would be sufficient, I believe: It would get the job done without duplication of effort -- which would seem to meet the requirement. Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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