Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 04:20:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Angelin Lalev <lalev@sv-bg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intelligent way of dealing with dependancies in ports Message-ID: <20060511041952.W20807@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <4462E4B5.8030105@sv-bg.com> References: <4462E4B5.8030105@sv-bg.com>
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> I'm rather tired of having to update firefox port due security fixes and then > having to build the new versions of > glib, expat, and so on an so on, every one of which complains that tere are > older versions of the lib installed. > > I've tried pkg_delete -f and install of the newer version, but then all the > binaries in the system started complaining > because they don't find the exact version of the shared library they are > compiled with. > > What's the intelligent way of dealing with the problem? > (Prefferably the one which does not include downloading 600+ MB of source > every time :-( ) portupgrade... something close to portupgrade -rR firefox and you're done. i usually run with a -n first to see what it wants to upgrade...
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