build ports from not a root user?

Damien Fleuriot ml at my.gd
Thu Jul 21 23:29:38 UTC 2011



On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:56, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200
> Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> 
>> On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin <peter at vereshagin.org>
>> wrote:
> 
>>> Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port,
>>> and not to update its dependencies.
>>> 
>> 
>> That's kinda the point of portupgrade, takes care of the deps for
>> you ;)
> 
> portupgrade doesn't upgrade dependencies by default. When it builds a
> port, the port installs *missing* dependencies as a side-effect. 

My point was, that is the reason people like me for instance use portupgrade or portmanager, recursive upgrades.



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