portmaster -a breaks shared libraries

[Leander]

Hi,

Generally I'd use

portmaster -a

in order to upgrade all needed ports. Recently I ran into the issue of broken shared libraries between www/apache24 and devel/apr1. Also this way, portmaster did not go through the entire procedure of upgrading all needed ports - in the end there where still ports left over which required upgrades as well but portmaster didn't continue on them. So I had to run

portmaster -r

on www/apache24 and devel/apr1 in order to get the shared libraries re-linked correctly again as well as I had to re-initialize

portmaster -a

in order to proceed with the other left over ports which also needed updating.

In order to prevent such scenarios, I tried to modify my command to

portmaster -ar

... but unfortunately this isn't working, since -r expects a package name afterwards .. it doesn't handle the -a option. So, when I was digging through

man portmaster

, I fell over another nice option

[-R] -f
always rebuild ports (overrides -i)

But when I ran this option, I figured, that it rebuilds a port WHENEVER A DEPENDENCY got detected. This is a quite unnecessary waste of my resources in all ways
So I was wondering if there is any better solution to this than running

portmaster -a

and in order to check for breaks

libchk -x /usr/X11R6

Thanks

 

[SirDice]

Re: portmaset -a breaks shared libraries

So I was wondering if there is any better solution to this than running

portmaster -a

and in order to check for breaks

libchk -x /usr/X11R6

Thanks

Always, yes, always, read /usr/ports/UPDATING:

20140322:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/apr1
  AUTHOR: ohauer@FreeBSD.org

  APR was updated to 1.5.0, BDB requirement was bumped to 48+

  Please rebuild all ports which are using functions from APR/APR-util
  such as Apache, Subversion, etc.

  # portmaster -r apr
    or
  # portupgrade -r devel/apr1
    or
  # pkg install -fR devel/apr1

 

[Leander]

Re: portmaset -a breaks shared libraries

Thanks for your reply

Always, yes, always, read /usr/ports/UPDATING:

... Due to my love of reading UPDATING information, I wrote a handy tool for this purpose available on source forge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freebsd-updates/

But your reply does not really answer my question. I want an option which does the -r on -a. Is there a way to imply this, or is the only solution to this a -f?

Thanks & best regards