--On May 9, 2009 2:05:41 PM -0700 Tony Doan <td...@tdoan.com> wrote:
Got MacPorts?
Do you normally keep things up to date by running "port sync; port
upgrade outdated"? Do you then wish there was a problem free way to
clean out all the previous versions?
Well then... have I got some beta software for you!
port_upgrade is a no holds barred brute force way to upgrade your
ports tree when things are out of date. port_upgrade crawls your
receipts directory and your sources directory and figures out what is
out of date. It then builds a dependency tree and uninstalls
everything in dependency order then reinstalls everything in reverse
order. Along the way you get the most up to date versions of your
ports, you are assured higher level ports are compiled against the
most recent versions of libraries and generally a nice clean ports
tree. You also get quite a long wait while things are recompiled and
reinstalled. It preserves specified variants (either specified
explicitly or implicitly). If port_upgrade encounters two versions of
a port installed where the variants differ you will be prompted which
to use.
I think some of the posts regarding this package may have missed the
point slightly. If a port is outdated it will rebuild that port and
all the other ports that depend on it, whether or not those ports are
also outdated. I don't think there is any command in MacPorts that
will do this, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Being one of the (few?) people who installed the X11 ports using the
+system_x11 variant and who, as a result, needs to rebuild everything
that depends on anything using that variant, even if it is not
outdated, this package seems like it would be useful. I do agree with
others who have said it would be better if it were part of the base
MacPorts system.
I tried to use it to clean up after system_x11 and have a couple of
suggestions for improvements. First, I had to change the value of
MACPORTS_DB in port_upgrade.rb since I use SVN to keep the ports data
base up to date. There is a parameter to override the location of the
receipts but I can't find one to override the location of the port
files. This would be useful.
It also seems like it would be useful to include a "clean" action in
the generated shell script that would do a "port clean --work
--archive" on all the relevant ports. Or perhaps just include this in
the "uninstall" action. If you've installed ports with the autoclean
option off and MacPorts thinks they aren't out of date, it won't
rebuild them.
Mike
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