On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:23:48PM -0400, as...@spamcop.net wrote: > I notice that port executables seem to get significantly stale > quicker than I thought. At least stuff stops fully working and > maybe I should try to rebuild the executables. > > Now I do not know of a way for me to automatically rebuild ports > that I have previously installed and only those ports. And I am not > inclined to do a true bulk build. > > Now I tend to favor python and it would seem there is enough > information to write a program that would support that kind of > limited automatic rebuild. Sort of thinking I might be able to look > at port tree make files and see where the executable would have gone > and see if the executable is actually there. Keep it simple and > generate a script with a lot cd's and make's in it and then execute > it. > > Does this seem like it would be of use to more than just myself? > Any thoughts about the right design and algorithm? Or is there > already an obvious to a non-luser way to do this?
Usual disclaimer: Use packages, not ports. You probably want to look into the (poorly documented) SUBDIRLIST feature. >From memory: L=$(mktemp) pkg_info -a -P -q > $L make FORCE_UPDATE=Yes FETCH_PACKAGES=Yes SUBDIRLIST=$L update It sometimes blows up and you have to fix things manually, but hey... Tobias
