Subject: Re: pkgsrc dependency problem
To: Steven M. Bellovin <email@example.com>
From: Andrew Brown <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 12/18/2003 17:41:29
>There are some tools I use to ease such updates. 'pkgdepgraph -D -O foo'
>will tell you what you have to delete to delete foo. Using -R instead
>of -D will generate a rebuild script. (Make sure you run that *before*
>you actually do the deletions. Ask me how I learned this...) 'pkg_chk -u'
just to check...if i understand you, by "run this" you mean the
"pkgdepgraph -R" command, not the actual rebuild script, right?
executing the output of pkgdepgraph -Faa is also a good idea, but it
won't necessarily cause the downloading of distfiles that are new
dependencies of already installed pkgs.
>will bring everything up to date with your current pkgsrc; I recommend
>using the -k flag, since the odds that something won't rebuild
>successfully are non-trivial, and you want a log of what needs to be
>rebuilt. One friend says the he rebuilds his pkg stuff from scratch,
>once a month or so, but that's a semi-manual process; there don't seem
>to be any good tools that are completely dependable to help with that.
pkgdepgraph -Da will list all pkgs in inverse dependency order (ie, an
order such that any given pkg only comes after any that depend on it),
and pkgdepgraph -Raa will generate a script that will rebuild all
modulo those pkgs that have moved within the pkgsrc hierarchy.
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