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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT),
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Mike> Seigo Tanimura writes:
>> Completely automatic update of installed ports is acutally difficult
>> because we cannot get to know the language or required toolkit from
>> the name of a binary. (eg emulator/wine and japanese/wine, timidity++-xaw
>> and timidity++-tcltk) We can still detect and enumerate the ports that
>> possibly installed old binaries, and decide which of the ports listed
>> up to update.
Mike> you. However, I believe you were talking about binaries that may have
Mike> been built from a current port against an out-of-date system.
Mike> Frankly, I'm not really interested in *detecting* such things. A tool
Mike> that would 1) save tarballs of *all* installed ports; 2) uninstall
Mike> them all; then 3) rebuild and install them all, with a report about
Mike> failures would make me happy.
How do you rebuild a port automatically if you want to hack the
configure parameter or make variables of the port?
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Seigo Tanimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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