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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:58:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
To:        stan <stanb@panix.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg_add ?
Message-ID:  <20040311175817.60207.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040311175011.GA32222@teddy.fas.com>

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--- stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
> I've moslty ever used the ports mechanisim to add
> things to my FreeBSD
> machines.
> 
> However, I have a couple that have fairly small hard
> drives ( ~2G) and I
> was hoping to use pkg_add -r to add a few things
> without building from
> source.
> 
> However, when I try to do that, it complains about
> incorect versions of
> dependencies. Looking at the man page I don't see a
> flag to ask it too just
> update the packages that my new one is dependent on.
> 
> How can I deal with this?
> 
> -- 
> "They that would give up essential liberty for
> temporary safety deserve
> neither liberty nor safety."
> 						-- Benjamin Franklin
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I believe that you are looking for 'portupgrade' not 'pkg_add'.

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