Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:03:17 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ??? Message-ID: <20040801150317.GA30653@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200408010632.57275.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <20040801114859.8595.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> <200408010632.57275.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:32:57AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> However, if you still want to use packages instead of source, I'm pretty =
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> if you use the -r flag with pkg_add it will auto-fetch-and-install the=20
> dependencies you need, as -r signifies to fetch the package remotely - i.=
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> pkg_add -r xfce4 (I just tried this with another package, and it installe=
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> the dependencies for it).
pkg_add -r will install any dependencies that are missing, but it
won't upgrade any earlier versions of dependencies it finds already
installed.
For that, use 'portupgrade -PPNa' (which, despite the program name,
only operated on packages with that combination of flags) -- but make
sure you download a freshly build /usr/ports/INDEX file, or
portupgrade won't know what the latest versions of things are. Of
course, you'll have to 'pkg_add -r portupgrade' to install portupgrade
the first time.
Cheers,
Matthew
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