I have just been cleaning up the mess caused by the upgrade of xcb-utils. On my systmes I have hundreds of ports that will be re-built by the methods listed in UPDATING, even though the vast majority of them are only dependent on other ports that are dependent on xcb-utils, but don't actually load any of the libraries in xcb-utils. It is a huge waste of time and CPU cycles.
I think that I can see two ways of eliminating the rebuilding of ports that don't need it. One is rather manual but can be done now while the other wou;d be automatic, but would need to be written by someone who is far better at writing shell scripts than I. The manual method would be to install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and use a command like `pkg_libchk | grep -E "xcb-.+.so" | sort > tmpfile` to provide a list of ports that actually are linked to the libraries in question. This would be fed into portmaster to rebuild just these ports. (I guess I could use awk and uniq to remove repeats.) Should this become a preferred method of handling this problem? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
