From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 28 16:01:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p05.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15446 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA01570; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:01:04 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:01:03 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Ports question In-Reply-To: <199812282349.PAA13909@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > Is there aw way to make a given port go ahead, and downlaod any > others that it depends on, and build them first? I would havesworn > that the ports system sued to do this, but it doesn;t seem to be > doing it on my system at the moment. > It should do it for you if it depends on another port. For example, the other day I installed xmpeg3 which depends on amp to run and it installed amp because amp didn't exist on my system. AFAIK, any port which has a dependency on another will install the one it depends on if it's not already installed. > Also what about ports that may not be _required_, but may be used if > present, as in the Xaw3d widget set for the siag pory? > Those would have to be installed separately AFAIK because it doesn't depend on it. If I'm way off here someone please set me straight =) Hope this helps, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message