When to use 'portupgrade -R'

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Joshua Lokken wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:37:40 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick
><jcm at freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:32:33PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
>>: from 'man portupgrade(1)':
>>
>>
>>:
>>:      -r
>>:      --recursive  Act on all those packages depending on the
>>:                       given packages as well.
>>:
>>:      -R
>>:      --upward-recursive   Act on all those packages required
>>:                        by the given packages as well. [snip]
>>:
>>: It sounds like you are / were not sure of what those options
>>: actually do.  Have a read of the manpage; it'll do you worlds
>>: of good.
>>
>>Actually, it WAS what I was trying to do.  I wanted to >upgrade gnome2-lite
>>and all the packages it required, because gnome2-lite is >a meta-port.
>>    
>>
>
>If you're trying to upgrade a large bunch of ports like gnome,
>you may want to start by running portupgrade on the 
>required libraries.  For example, although I usually install
>XFree86-4 via the meta-port, when I want to upgrade it, I
>generally run 'portupgrade -r XFree86-4-libraries', which first
>upgrades the libs, then all the ports (including the rest of
>the XFree86 stuff) that require XFree86-4-libraries.  YMMV.
>  
>

If you're upgrading gnome2, what you *really* wanna
do is use the FreeBSD-Gnome Project's "gnome_upgrade.sh"
script.  Can't say for sure about "gnome-lite", though :-|

Kevin Kinsey