Matthew Seaman writes:
> On 30/03/2013 13:17, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> > Am I too much of a zombie this morning, or is there nothing in
> > the man page about how to do this?
>
> That's not functionality provided by pkgng at the moment,
> although pkgng certainly has all the necessary data in repository
> catalogues etc. to be able to sort a list of package origins with
> all dependencies occurring before what requires them. No one has
> implemented that yet.
>
> However, pkg_sort(1) is part of portupgrade, and portupgrade
> should be fully pkgng aware nowadays. Did you try just using
> pkg_sort?
I did and do.
I'm trying to move to a single tool for this set of tasks, and
pkg_sort is one of the (very) few things I haven't been able to
replace. Unfortunately, that functionality is essential to several
scripts ....
The other irreplaceable I can think of is "portsclean",
particularly the C, D, and L options.
> If you'ld like something to be changed about either portupgrade
> or pkgng in respect to this, then please open an issue --
>
> https://github.com/pkgtools/pkgtools/issues
> https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/issues
Depends on how lazy I'm feeling at the moment. :-)
Robert Huff
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