From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 13:28:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEC537B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3JKSnO32279 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG.AVP; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:28:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with UUCP id f3JKSmo32257; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:28:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f3JKSP618045; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:28:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:28:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Trevin Chow Cc: Rasputin , Subject: Re: How to people easily update ports with dependencies (such as galeon)? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Trevin Chow wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > * Trevin Chow [010418 20:20]: > > > Does this maintain dependencies of all the ports? For example, if > > > foobar-3.0 depends on barfoo-4.0 and we upgrade barfoo-4.0 to 5.0, > > > is the dependency from foobar-3.0 updated to depend on barfoo-5.0? > > > > Not really no, and I wouldn't recommned running theresulting script directly. > > Putting the new glib over the old one won't break anything. > > You can pkg_delete -f glib.... > > and them put a new one back in , but that could be risky > > if the libraries have changed significantly. > > > What about someone's suggestion to manually change the +REQUIRED and > +CONTENTS of the appropriate packages to reflect the new port? > > use portupgrade in the ports; it will fix dependencies. Leif > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message