Subject: Re: Forcing a full rebuild of GNOME after update from 3.0.1 to 3.1
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/13/2006 18:25:43
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:14:53 -0600 (CST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > > Is this related to "pkg_info -u"?? (Compare with output from
> > > "pkg_info -a".)
> > >
> > > Have a look at your package database +INSTALLED_INFO files for
> > > "automatic=yes".
> > >
> > > Maybe that does what you want or can be extended to do what you
> > > want.
> > >
> >
> > Ah! I'd missed that, and no one pointed it out the last time I
> > asked... Combined with '-Q PKGPATH', it's very much what I want.
>
> I recall you mentioning this a couple times before. I think probably
> someone added this for you but forgot to tell you :) It was added in
> November 2005.
>
Looks like it was at least partly my fault, since I last asked this
past June...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb