Mike, Thank you for the suggestions. Both should be easily done. Look for a new dot release soon. Glad you found it useful.
\T > --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 upgrade outdated"?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 ports tree when things are out of date.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 out of date.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 If a port is outdated it will rebuild that port and 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 also outdated.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 outdated, this package seems like it would be useful.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 > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
