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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:53:34 +0100
From:      DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large port updates
Message-ID:  <1775779333.20041207165334@wilbury.sk>
In-Reply-To: <41B5D08B.1070608@fer.hr>
References:  <41B5D08B.1070608@fer.hr>

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Hi Ivan,

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:47:23 PM, you Cannot open file "C\TXT COOKIES\reply-en.txt":

> Is there a "best practice" for automated updating large number of 
> interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I
> wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an 
> existing one, and fail.

> My current example is gnome. Recently, whatever I want to install 
> requires gnome2.8 - how to update the giant list of gnome libs & apps?
> portupgrade -r? (but on what package?)

portupgrade -arR should be good...

> What about ports that have dialog boxes which require user intervention?

i don't know exactly, you have to watch and see what's happening..

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