xproto merge - for portmaster users

talsamon

talsamon

The UPDATING message is not very good. For portmaster users:
You should run
pkg delete -f \*proto evieext
before you start portmaster (to prevent many interrupts cause of "installs in the same place").

You can check the output of the above command with the lines in /usr/ports/MOVED.
And I think you should after the recompilation pkg check -dn.
 
UPDATING message is changed.
It suggests:
pkg version -l \? | cut -f 1 -w | grep -v compat | xargs pkg delete -fy.
 
The problem I have with both these commands is it will also delete the packages/ports that depend on it, and then rerunning portmaster or portupgrade would only reinstall these packages if they happen to be a dependency of a port they updating.

Example below.

Code: 
# pkg delete inputproto
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 4 packages (of 0 packages in the universe):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        inputproto-2.3.2
        libXi-1.7.9,1
        libXtst-1.2.3
        openjdk6-b39,1

Number of packages to be removed: 4

The operation will free 136 MiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]:

For giggles adding -R gives the same output, is pkg delete by default supposed to be non recursive and not also delete dependencies? I feel the default is including -R when it should not. This is one of the things I am hating right now when the dev's keep making changes like this which are a pain to deal with. Either make the tools automate the changes or dont make the changes.

Code: 
# pkg delete -R inputproto
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 4 packages (of 0 packages in the universe):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        inputproto-2.3.2
        libXi-1.7.9,1
        libXtst-1.2.3
        openjdk6-b39,1

Number of packages to be removed: 4

The operation will free 136 MiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]:
 
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