Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:09:51 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: How flexible _is_ the use of ports? Message-ID: <20021030150951.J618@numachi.com>
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The lastest rev of my desktop, I committed to the use of ports to introduce software to the system. I'm quite impressed with the amount of work that people have put into this; it does quite a bit for me. I had a recent hard crash (which I rebooted from successfully) revealed some misbehavior on Mozilla's port. No biggie, I said, I'll just reinstall it from ports. This didn't clear up my problem; seemingly the issue is not with Mozilla, but with one of the build- or run-dependancies. Is there a way to ask a port, and all of it's dependancies (and theirs, recursively) to be reinstalled, while honoring FORCE_PKG_REGISTER? The try-one-at-a-time method is _quite_ tiring... Oh, this under 4.5-RELEASE, FWIW... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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