portupgrade

Erwan David erwan at rail.eu.org
Thu Oct 4 22:14:08 PDT 2007


Le Thu  4/10/2007, Ryan Schmidt disait
>  On Oct 4, 2007, at 19:51, ara.t.howard wrote:
> 
> > anyone had success installing portupgrade and co on osx?  i'm about to give 
> > it a whirl...
> 
>  Having never heard of "portupgrade" before, I Googled it... looks like it's 
>  a set of utilities for FreeBSD ports, so I doubt it would work at all with 
>  MacPorts. What functionality from portupgrade are you desiring?

I also doubt portupgrade will work with macports. But some features are
interesting. An exemple is the fact that in upgrading it will order the
recompilations thus avoiding recompiling 6 or 7 time the same library, as
macports do.

-- 
Erwan



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