That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports also incorporate the current state of installed packages?
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM, daniele <gl...@live.com> wrote: > On 03/05/10 16:43, Anselm Strauss wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all >> ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. >> The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be >> done >> with packages? pkg_add would have to download all packges first to be able >> to calculate all dependencies, or can it operate on an index file? >> >> Anselm >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> >> >> Hello ! > > Take a look at the 'ports' manpage and you will find a mean on how to get > useful information on the ports collection (configuring building discover > dependencies etc..) : > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html > > Examples > > * fetch-list > Show list of files to be fetched in order to build the port. > > * run-depends-list, build-depends-list > Print a list of all the compile and run dependencies, > and dependencies of those dependencies, by port directory. > > etc... > > 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"