Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:06 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing ports based on library dependency Message-ID: <20060912094706.GC724@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <a8b8bb510609111209n5333a497ie5ca675d408139a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <a8b8bb510609111209n5333a497ie5ca675d408139a9@mail.gmail.com>
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--6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-Sep-11 20:09:34 +0100, Alex Burke wrote: >I want to upgrade one of my FreeBSD boxes running 6.0 to CURRENT. I >know that this involves rebuilding ports so they link against >libc.so.7 and all associated libraries. I'll second Doug's suggestion of "delete the lot and re-install what you really want". I'll add a few comments though: A number of ports will build differently depending on the ports that exist when they are compiled (mozilla and xmms come to mind here). There are also a variety of ports where different versions are available that are functionally similar (so any version would satisfy dependencies). If you want to install particular subordinate ports (eg you have a MySQL database of a particular version), you should probably explicitly install them, rather than rely on root/leaf port dependencies. --=20 Peter Jeremy --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFBoIa/opHv/APuIcRArzcAJ9EXLHohHm4mAET+N4u7oKadj3EtgCcCRm/ difqn7iV3QqR95jxspagCPM= =arS6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR--
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