Kevin Oberman wrote:
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?
You can use pkg_libchk -oc to have it report rather port name and skip
status junk. You don't need uniq, use sort -u. Anyway portmaster will
uniq them anyway.
--
Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.
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