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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 13:03:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10
Message-ID:  <20050520130031.T1846@dualman.wheel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050519234448.GA97995@xor.obsecurity.org>
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here's some of my bookmarks from dru lavigne's
stuff at oreilly on working with ports. the one
on portupgrade really helped jumpstart my learning
it.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html


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Unix is like a wigwam. No gates,
no windows, and an apache inside.
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
>> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>>
>>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:36:58AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> yes sorry i jumped in without reading the man page for it's useage.
>>>>> however some digging and a few other helpful emails and TA DA!!! it
>>>>> works!!!
>>>>> i portupgraded freetype2, and then firefox built successfully.
>>>>> i was under the impression that portupgrade looked after
>>>>> dependencies like this on it's own however?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you tell it to..again, please see the manpage :)
>>>>
>>>> Kris
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Specifically:
>>>
>>>    -R
>>>    --upward-recursive     Act on all those packages required by the
>>> given
>>>                           packages as well. (When specified with -F,
>>> fetch
>>>                           recursively, including the brand new,
>>> uninstalled
>>>                           ports that an upgraded port requires)
>>>
>>> The man page is your friend.
>>>
>>> --Alex
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>
>> don't i need to be wary of -R ?? wholesale upgrading of library's might
>> break other apps that use them
>
> It's *always* a good idea to update your ports with your brain turned
> on :-)
>
> portupgrade -a is often safer, because it won't update a port but
> leave other dependencies of that port than the one you specified
> untouched.
>
> Kris
>


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