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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I believe that you are looking for 'portupgrade' not 'pkg_add'. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
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