portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With normal portupgrade, this forces you to go fix the

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/25/12 9:53 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun.

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/06/2012 08:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With normal

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 10:40, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread John Levine
You would think there's an option to portupgrade that says don't upgrade every single package I've got, but if somewhere in the dependency chain I need a newer version of a thing, then do it. The problem is that the versioning in the ports system doesn't distinguish between upgrades that

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-25 11:47, John Levine wrote: You would think there's an option to portupgrade that says don't upgrade every single package I've got, but if somewhere in the dependency chain I need a newer version of a thing, then do it. The problem is that the versioning in the ports system

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the