Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question

[Jay O'Brien]

Alec Berryman wrote:

> Jay O'Brien on 2005-03-27 18:20:00 -0800:
> 
> 
>>Now, pkg_info says I have 10 packages installed; added were ezm3, 
>>gettext, gmake, libiconv, libtool, portupgrade,ruby and ruby18. If 
>>these all required to make portupgrade or perl work, where is that 
>>reference?
> 
> 
> They are required to build and run portupgrade.  If you do a 'make search
> name=portupgrade' from /usr/ports, it will list all the dependencies.
>  
> 
>>PS.. I tried to install portmanager again, and this time it got the 
>>files immediately and installed fine. It took about a minute, not two 
>>hours. It reports that all my ports are up to date. Whew.
> 
> 
> That's because portupgrade did all the work :)  If you had run
> portmanager before running portupgrade, you would have seen something
> similar - portmanager taking two hours and portupgrade taking almost
> no time at all.

Alec,

Thanks, I searched the FreeBSD Handbook for "dependency" and didn't find any 
reference to "make search". I guess it is one of those things that once you 
know about it you don't have to look for it any more. Unfortunately a lot 
of the documentation I can review is written for those folks who already 
know the answers. 

Thanks for the heads up on 'make search', even if I can't find a complete 
description of the command. I find that it is referenced in the manual, 
however. 

I see that several of the packages that were installed aren't listed in the 
dependencies for portupgrade. Only the two ruby programs are listed. 

Jay