From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 12:47:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rm-rstar.sfu.ca (rm-rstar.sfu.ca [142.58.120.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0082337B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (tmchow@fraser.sfu.ca [142.58.101.25]) by rm-rstar.sfu.ca (8.10.1/8.10.1/SFU-5.0H) with ESMTP id f3JJlNl11561; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tmchow@localhost) by fraser.sfu.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2/SFU-5.0C) with ESMTP id MAA27483; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fraser.sfu.ca: tmchow owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevin Chow To: Rasputin Cc: Subject: Re: How to people easily update ports with dependencies (such as galeon)? In-Reply-To: <20010419101202.A24896@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > * Trevin Chow [010418 20:20]: > > Does this maintain dependencies of all the ports? For example, if > > foobar-3.0 depends on barfoo-4.0 and we upgrade barfoo-4.0 to 5.0, > > is the dependency from foobar-3.0 updated to depend on barfoo-5.0? > > Not really no, and I wouldn't recommned running theresulting script directly. > Putting the new glib over the old one won't break anything. > You can pkg_delete -f glib.... > and them put a new one back in , but that could be risky > if the libraries have changed significantly. What about someone's suggestion to manually change the +REQUIRED and +CONTENTS of the appropriate packages to reflect the new port? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message