From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 8 12:12:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD83814D9D for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA16473; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:10:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma016471; Thu, 8 Apr 99 14:10:04 -0500 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA88107; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:08:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199904081908.OAA88107@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: lists/freebsd X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: References: Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: John Polstra Cc: Alex Zepeda , current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:08:59 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 April 1999 at 11:49, John Polstra wrote: [snip] > Everything works fine for the initial installation. But now 3 months > later you want to upgrade to the new version. About the only reliable > way to do that is to manually track down all the dependencies, > pkg_delete every one of them, and then make install in the KDE or > gnome port. Otherwise you end up with a hodge-podge of new ports and > old dependencies, and they don't play together nicely. Maintainers of these ports would appreciate PRs if the dependencies are broken. The ports infrastructure has the mechanisms necessary to handle these dependencies, but the port maintainer may not catch every dependency. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message