Re: What's the definition of the stale port?

2005-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger 
Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
On 2005-04-07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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How do I end up having stale ports?
As time marches on :-)
I am guessing, that port becomes stale after running cvsup.
When a new version of a port is committed, anyone running the older version 
has a stale version.  Whether you run cvsup or not doesn't affect whether a 
new version is available, but you are a lot more likely to notice dependency 
issues after running cvsup.

So, what exactly are we supposed to accomplish in respect to stale
ports, when we run pkgdb -F (deinstall, some kind of fix, simple
ignore)?
pkgdb tries to update the dependencies when new versions of a port appear. 
Running pkgdb by itself is not especially useful, although you can check and 
rebuild updated ports by hand.  Consider portupgrade instead

--
-Chuck
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Re: What's the definition of the stale port?

2005-04-06 Thread Sergei Gnezdov 
On 2005-04-07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:49:00PM -0700, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
>> What is stale port?
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> It's not entirely clear what context you're talking about, but the
> answer is probably "One for which a newer version is available."

I'd say that installed port is stale if its version is older then the
version of the port in the /usr/ports/

>> How do I end up having stale ports?
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> As time marches on :-)

I am guessing, that port becomes stale after running cvsup.

So, what exactly are we supposed to accomplish in respect to stale
ports, when we run pkgdb -F (deinstall, some kind of fix, simple
ignore)?

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Re: What's the definition of the stale port?

2005-04-06 Thread Kris Kennaway 
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:49:00PM -0700, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> What is stale port?

It's not entirely clear what context you're talking about, but the
answer is probably "One for which a newer version is available."

> How do I end up having stale ports?

As time marches on :-)

Kris


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