Re: make update

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

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:57:27AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev 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".
 > 
 > ...Which is often not entirely desirable either. :)

...which is why there's a minor cottage industry producing tools for
updating your pkgsrc packages.

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David A. Holland
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