* Simon Marlow
simply do `portupgrade -rf changed_pkg` to recompile all packages depending on the changed one.
Heh, I've been using portupgrade for a while but managed to miss that. I usually use it in '-Rr' mode.
It's much more obscure. In '-Rr' packages with the same version number in the port and the installed package are staying untouched. You need to add '-f' for your purpose.
Nevetheless, this behaviour ought to be the default. I strongly believe in this principle:
Using the standard package tools on a system, in their default configuration, it should be impossible to end up with an inconsistent set of installed packages.
Seconded. Absolutely!
FreeBSD even lets you install several different versions of a package on top of each other - so that when you delete one of them, it deletes some the files belonging to the other version too (only some, because it does the md5 checksum thing). This drives me nuts.
Yes, indeed, this is not very nice :-( Unfortunately I am very busy at the moment, but a fix or, at least, a workarround is on my todo list. Regards, Olli -- Oliver Braun -- obraun @ { unsane.org | FreeBSD.org | haskell.org }