Hello, since i am writing a substitute program to portupgrade, i have noticed a problem that i have hard time figuring out, and i would like to sollicit the advice of more experienced people. The point is, what to do about ports which have been installed as dependencies of some other ports, but the dependency has changed afterwards and nothing particular occurs in the MOVED file. The specific example i have in mind is the following. Installing gnome-session brings as dependency a zeroconf program. Some time ago, it was howl, now it is avahi. If i upgrade the installed software without further consideration of the problem, both howl *and* avahi will be installed (and howl upgraded). If MOVED mentioned that howl has disappeared, then i would have only avahi, which would be more correct. Or it could be mentioned that howl has been moved to avahi, while in fact there is no mention of howl. A somewhat similar problem occurs with python. I have a lot of programs depending on python, and python installed. But in more recent ports tree, all these programs are marked dependent on python24, so if i upgrade, i will have both python24 and python installed. Presumably they are presently the same, but python will become python25. However nothing in MOVED helps to solve this issue. At present the only simple thing i can do is follow MOVED for what is mentioned in MOVED, try to upgrade the rest, while killing disappeared ports, and hope that dependency will restore an appropriate system. Do you have better ideas?
By the way, a first step program is available here: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/analyze_pkg.py It will analyze installed packages, follow MOVED, and compute the INDEX for all installed packages and all their dependencies, that it discovers while computing the INDEX. In my case i have around 600 installed ports, it discovers around 100 dependencies, and the procedure takes around 1mn25 (on a P4, 3Ghz). The result can be found in the files ErrorLog and INDEX. -- Michel TALON _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"