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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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