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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:25:41 +0100
From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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To: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading a depended port
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Dennis Jun schrieb:
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> I have gkrellm-1.0.6 installed on my system. I wish to upgrade it to
> 1.0.7. However, after I did a cd /usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm/; make;
> pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/gkrellm-1.0.6/ I got the following warning:
> 
> pkg_delete: package `gkrellm-1.0.6' is required by these other packages
> and may not be deinstalled:
> gkrellmms-0.5.5
> gkrellmvolume-0.8
> 
> Now I'm wondering what would be the best course of action to upgrade to
> 1.0.7 without breaking those apps that are dependent on it. Much thanx in
> advance.

The save way is to update the dependent ports as well. To do so savely:
- Build both dependent ports
- pkg_delete the old versions
- install the new versions

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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