Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:15:13 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Updating software Message-ID: <20010308091513.A1766@cec.wustl.edu>
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I have a list of packages that I've compiled and installed from ports, which are now outdated. Last night, I started a Compile Fest to update all of them, but aborted due to complications. Certain packages are easy to update, since I can just remove the old package and build the new one. However, packages with a lot of dependencies (like GTK) cannot be removed without hacking up /var/db/pkg. I want to replace packages which have dependencies, but I don't want to bother fooling with /var/db/pkg, and I definitely to not want to uninstall packages that depend on what I want to rebuild. Is there a good way to replace a package? I've tried pkg_update, but somebody told me that was beta, and in any event, it can't locate warnings.pm (because I don't have that file anywhere). Thanks. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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