recommendation instead of portmanager

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Jan 15 00:23:15 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Artifex Maximus <artifexor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch. Is
> there any similar program with such option? I am asking because portmanager
> is gone from ports tree.
>
> "   -p or --pristine        Updates a port if any dependency in it's
>                                 /var/db/pkg/{port name}/+CONTENTS does not
>                                 match what is installed. The effect is when
> a
>                                 port is updated, any port who uses the
> updated
>                                 port in it's dependency chain, no matter
> how
>                                 deep, are rebuilt. Normally only ports one
>                                 level up are rebuilt."
>

I think "portupgrade --recursive" will do what you want.


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