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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:28:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
Cc:        Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to people easily update ports with dependencies (such as galeon)?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104192227160.17754-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104191246370.25333-100000@fraser.sfu.ca>

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Trevin Chow wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote:
>
> > * Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [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


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