Date: 04 Jan 2005 16:06:16 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jordan Michaels <jordan@viviotech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and finding dependant packages Message-ID: <44oeg4ucon.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <41D9CE4C.4080306@viviotech.net> References: <41D9C7BC.2050309@bouncebk.com> <41D9CE4C.4080306@viviotech.net>
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Jordan Michaels <jordan@viviotech.net> writes: > However, now when I go to install php, I get an error message (Error > code 1) and when I try to remove the check box next to the apache > package, I get a "This package is required by 2 other packages" error > message. > > So, my questions is simple: What do I need to do to figure out what > packages require apache to be installed? I've worked with SuSE's YAST > tool and RPM's (and tools that manage RPM's... like YAST), but what's > the BSD way to go about this? pkg_info(1). For that matter, if you delete packages with pkg_delete(1), it will tell you which other packages (if any) are keeping a package from being installed. For more flexible options in updating your packages, you might want to look at the sysutils/portupgrade port.
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