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portdeps

So why yet another ports update tool? My answer is simple: None of the existing tools fulfills my requirement for a straight-forward, easy-to-use updating tool. Some of the existing tools create databases that spill my disk (and perhaps get confused if I manually update a specific port), others require lots of user intervention, etc. I just wanted something that spits out the appropriate commands to update my ports, and that's it. I started with exploring the port dependencies, hence the name.

Here are the features of my portdeps script:

Just requires a stock perl installation. Perl 5.8 or above recommended.
Will essentially not do anything on its own. No fiddling with your ports tree, no wizardry in the background. It even won't create a single file. It will just emit the shell commands that are required to update your ports.
Will take care of recursive port dependencies.
Will not only check the port ${VERSION}_${REVISION},${EPOCH} of a port, but also verify that the build time of dependant ports is not newer.
Unlike some other tools, does not rely on +REQUIRED_BY but rather uses make to elaborate on port dependencies in the current ports tree.
Runs a single make for each port and internally stores the information gained from that make. Yes, this still does take time but gives most accurate update information with minimum effort.
Doesn't care about BUILD_DEPENDS, but only about RUN_DEPENDS, LIB_DEPENDS, and DEPENDS. I know that other packages do it differently but for me this appears to be the Right Thing.

In practice you would just run

portdeps

and receive this output:

# security/ipsec-tools needs updating: installed ipsec-tools-0.6.4_1, in ports ipsec-tools-0.6.4_2
# textproc/expat2 needs updating: installed expat-1.95.8_3, in ports expat-2.0.0
# www/apache13 needs updating: installed apache-1.3.34_3, in ports apache-1.3.34_4
# devel/gmake needs updating: devel/gettext is more recent than devel/gmake
# ftp/wget needs updating: devel/gettext is more recent than ftp/wget
make -C /usr/ports/security/ipsec-tools all deinstall install clean &&
make -C /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 all deinstall install clean &&
make -C /usr/ports/ftp/wget all deinstall install clean &&
make -C /usr/ports/devel/gmake all deinstall install clean &&
 make -C /usr/ports/security/rkhunter all deinstall install clean &&
 make -C /usr/ports/www/apache13 all deinstall install clean &&
  make -C /usr/ports/hmo/apache-contrib-mod_urlcount all deinstall install clean &&
true

Then check this output, and either cut-and-paste this into a shell window, or feed it into a pipe:

portdeps | sh

That's the whole story. Simple and stupid, but very effective and handy.

Ah, there's a downside: This is hard-core perl. Zero documentation apart from the source.

Just drop me a mail if you have suggestions. Please keep in mind that this is intended as a simple, handy tool rather than a full-featured package with lots of knobs.

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