On Thursday 09 July 2009 01:44:14 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:20:41PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 > > > > Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: > > > > THat's the point ! > > > > > > > > isnt that -R implied by -N ? > > > > > > > > From the portupgrade man page > > > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > -N > > > > --new > > > > Install a new port/package when a specified package is not > > > > installed. Prior to the installation a new port/package, all the > > > > required packages are upgraded. > > > > > > No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up > > > to date. > > > > I don't understand what you're are saying here. My reading of the > > manpage is the same as Dan's: when you install kdeadmin with > > portupgrade -N, everything that kdeadmin requires will be upgraded i.e. > > "brought up to date". > > My mistake. It may be a regression with portupgrade; or just that the > feature in the second sentence has never been implemented due to the > overlap with -R
Ah, I will send anemail to the maintainer, then. Let's investigate a bit more ! ;-) Many Thanks for your answers! d _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"