Reply is at the bottom... --- On Wed, 1/23/13, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portmaster -w -r (pcre & icu): how to avoid redundant rebuilding? To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1...@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 6:04 PM On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On 01/22/13 06:26, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >I see in the UPDATING file that I need to rebuild all ports that depend on >> >pcre and icu: > >> >portmaster -w -r pcre >> >and >> >portmaster -w -r icu >> >(I don't need -f ?) > >> >How do I do this without rebuilding the same ports twice? > >> >I am on pkgng, so I can use >> >pkg info -r icu >> >and same for pcre to list ports depending on icu and pcre (long lists). > >> >I just updated, from source, to: > > >> >FreeBSD amelia2 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #14 r245542: Tue Jan 22 >> >03:00:31 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 > >> >Tom > >> I've not had any luck with avoiding redundant rebuilding as pcre and icu >> updates aren't sent out at the same time. Perhaps someone can say if I'm >> off my rocker, has anyone tried issuing 'portmaster -w -r icu pcre'? >> Perhaps that would avoid the redundant rebuilds? > >> Of course that would only work if one waits for both updates to come out. > >> -- >> Yours in Christ, > >> Joseph A Nagy Jr > > I could possibly make lists of ports that depend on pcre and icu using > > pkg info -r icu (and also pcre, redirecting to files) > > Then I could try > portmaster -w -r icu -r pcre > or do I need to use -w twice? > > Then I could see what ports it would build, say n when asked if I wanted to > rebuild those ports, assuming there would be config dialogs along the line. > > Then I would run the portmaster command again with |& tee portm.log at the > right end, see if I like what would be built before answering y. > > I would be able to login to another virtual terminal to examine portm.log > file at the early stage when asked whether to rebuild the ports >My standard answer (and huge time-saver) is to install sysutils/bsdasminscripts and do the following. This example is for pcre and icu >% pkg_libchk -o | grep -E "libpcre|libicu" | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq > pcre-updates.txt % portmaster `cat pcre-updates.txt` >This will only update any port once and will only update ports that really need it. -- 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" If you'd rather put off most of the rebuilds until they bump anyway, simply maybe run the ports you want to use in the interim out of X, say an editor (gtk2) run without X may show only one of its dependencies need actual rebuilding. Not recommended as a general procedure for most systems maybe, but something to keep in mind... it shows in some instances more information than simply ldd'ing the binary, resulting in less downtime of the desktop or whatever. J. Bouquet _______________________________________________ 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"
