Will do. I was unaware of the "se@"address or I would have. I did complain about this a few years ago on the ports@ list and I never got a response.
I you use '-f' in portmaster, it will rebuild all ports that use the library directly and any port that uses that port all the way up the tree. It's only when something rather disastrous happens that you need or want to use '-f'. Very few ports actually make use of the shareable library. Most are simply calling the perl interpreter and the perl executable which will use the shareable, but those programs don't link to it. In fact, very few 'p5-' programs do, either. The exceptions are the very few that include C code (a lot do) that call into the libperl.so (fairly uncommon)m and the "pkg shlib" does a very nice job of finding these. Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:10 AM Adam Weinberger <ad...@adamw.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:25 AM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Paul Macdonald via freebsd-ports < > > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder if i'm not alone in wishing the perl maintainer would update > > > UPDATING with the actual up to date commands to do an upgrade, instead > > > of referring to an entry from many moons ago > > > > > > I'm not lazy, but if it was done once, this would actually save effort > > > for 100 boxes for me, and i suspect save effort for 10's of thousands > > > of people ( and avoid easy to make mistakes) > > > > > > Please take the time to make UPDATING correct ( and actually up to > date) > > > , it'll save many man hours! > > > > > > ( i do appreciate their time is valuable too, but there is a > > > multiplication effect) > > > > > > > > > sincere thanks > > > > > > Paul. > > > > > > > It's also annoying that, if I followed the instructions in hte 3 year old > > entry, I would have re-installed about 400 ports which would have taken > > several hours. By removing the "-f" from the portmaster command reduced > the > > re-build to about 40 ports, most small p5- ports requiring less than a > > minute each. Whole process took under an hour... likely about 15 minutes. > > No idea why the portmaster command includes it. portmaster is smart > enough > > to figure it out correctly and not re-install a bunch of ports that don't > > need it. > > Nearly all committers use poudriere, so we rely on your input for > legacy tool instructions. If the commands should be different, please > run it through s...@freebsd.org (the portmaster maintainer) and give us > the correct commands. > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > ad...@adamw.org > https://www.adamw.org > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
