From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 12:41:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A74F37B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 12:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA35831; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:41:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:41:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Cc: Subject: Re: pkg_update In-Reply-To: <01051415262702.79187@psych.ward.vt.edu> 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 Mon, 14 May 2001, Daniel Fisher wrote: > Is the pkg_update command supposed to solve package dependency > problems? I haven't been able to get it to work (Release 4.3), so > if anyone can tell me how to use it I would appreciate it. > > Just recently I wanted to upgrade the png package. However I have > 20 some packages that depend on this & I don't want to recompile > everything. It would be cool to finally have a solution for this. Try ports/sysutils/portupgrade. It was designed for this situation. It has worked well for me so far. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message