Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r).

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R),

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:47:59 +0100 Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Those look backwards to me.  It's extremely rare for me to upgrade everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a port and everything that depends on it (-r). I've used -R before to correct

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-27 Thread Doug Barton
FYI, I agree with most of what b.f. wrote, and I thank him for answering this. I don't follow -questions anymore, so it's very helpful when I get cc'ed on posts about portmaster. A few additional thoughts ... On 12/26/2010 21:13, b. f. wrote: I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong or

Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Ron (Lists)
I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have switched to using portmaster and am having nothing but problems, so

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800 Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: ok, so libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed? Why is that an issue? Why doesn't portmaster just happily skip it since it's already installed? What am I not understanding here? Or am I using portmaster wrong? That's

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800 Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: ok, so libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed? Why is that an issue? Why doesn't portmaster just happily skip it since it's already installed? What

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have

Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote: But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I'm a bit confused about this. I did a quick google search and saw that someone had stopped maintaining portupgrade, but I also saw things that suggested

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800 Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: === Checking if devel/libltdl already installed === libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.

Re: Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 13:42, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote: But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I'm a bit confused about this. I did a quick google search and saw that someone had

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread David Newman
On 12/26/10 11:45 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800 Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: ok, so libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed? Why is that an issue? Why doesn't portmaster just happily skip it since it's already installed? What am I not understanding here?

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread b. f.
I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have switched to using portmaster and am having nothing but problems, so