From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 05:48:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FC4106564A for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:48:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fports@paz.bz) Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [207.34.147.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A5D8FC0A for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 100-236-53-209.qcislands.net ([209.53.236.100] helo=[192.168.1.6]) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1T5Vae-00024Y-PA; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:40:54 -0700 Message-ID: <5039B6E9.90503@paz.bz> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:40:57 -0700 From: Jim Pazarena User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-local_scan: locally submitted (100) Cc: Subject: upgrading ports with a lot of dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:48:16 -0000 My question is a general one, with the following specific example. I wanted to re-compile the latest phpmyadmin but when I tried that, I get a "you must have the latest php5" (5.4.6) when I try php5 I get a dependency of devel/pkgconf when I compile pkgconf, it conflicts with devel/pkg-config Upon investigation it looks like pkg-config is replaced with pkgconf however attempting to remove it show dozens of dependencies preventing the removal. I find this series of challenges frequently as installs move along in age, and usually wind up re-loading the entire server to beat the challenge. There must be an easier way. Advice would be greatly appreciated.