Thank you (for making the ports less boring).

Ruslan Mahmatkhanov cvs-src at yandex.ru
Tue Sep 13 19:46:42 UTC 2011


Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote on 13.09.2011 16:03:

> In particular, checking which ports depend on a port just updated is a
> particularly nasty thing to do. I get the impression that each committer
> has his own special way of doing this. For example, I have personally
> found that a simple grep won't work, because "grep xxx
> /usr/ports/*/Makefile*" just creates a line too long for the shell to
> handle. I use a shell construction involving "find" but I wonder how
> others do the same thing.

http://beta.freshports.org/*category*/*portname*

Required by:
for Build
for Run

is quite useful as for me. But it can't catch all of them.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

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