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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
To:        Nate Puri <natepuri@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to people easily update ports with dependencies (such as galeon)?
Message-ID:  <20010418121714.J44424-100000@benny.geektank.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010418144251.22905.qmail@web3306.mail.yahoo.com>

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Does this maintain dependencies of all the ports? For example, if
foobar-3.0 depends on barfoo-4.0 and we upgrade barfoo-4.0 to 5.0,
is the dependency from foobar-3.0 updated to depend on barfoo-5.0?

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Nate Puri wrote:

> Simple,
>
> do this...
>
> pkg_version -c > update_ports.sh
>
> Then go in update_ports.sh and you will see a list up
> ports that need to be updated (and their dependencies
> will be in there too).  Delete the top few lines, add
> '#!/bin/sh'; do chmod 755 update_ports.sh, then do
> ./update_ports.sh, and
> viola!, updated ports.
>
> Later,
> Nate
> --- Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> wrote:
> > Hi all -
> > 	I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a
> > painless way to
> > update a port that has dependencies?
> >
> > In my case, I currently have galeon-0.10.2 which
> > requires glib-1.2.10.  I
> > currently have glib-1.2.8.  The problem is I can
> > remove my galeon port,
> > and install the new one, but installing the new one
> > will install the new
> > version of glib without removing the old one.
> >
> > is there an easy way to tell it to remove any old
> > ports of new versions
> > it's installing?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > -philip
> >
> >
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