Re: make update

[David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:39:15PM -0500, neoluddite%hushmail.com@localhost 
wrote:
 > When I run make update on a package it causes other unrelated packages
 > to be rebuilt even though they are listed by lintpkgsrc as already up
 > to date.  For example, updating glib2 caused firefox, gimp, and others
 > to be rebuilt.  If this is normal behavior, is there a flag to turn it
 > off?

Those packages are not unrelated; they depend on glib2.

That's the way "make update" works. It is often not entirely
desirable. To get more control, you can use "make replace".

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost