Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:23:01 +0100 From: Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: textproc/libxslt depending on libxml >= 2.6.15 Message-ID: <yszvf9z7fze.fsf@bam.nordberg.se> In-Reply-To: <41E8262E.9040508@FreeBSD.org> (Adam Weinberger's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:06:06 -0500") References: <yszzmzdb3ct.fsf@bam.nordberg.se> <opskkwn6nw9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <yszr7ko81s4.fsf@bam.nordberg.se> <41E7ECDB.9090704@FreeBSD.org> <yszhdlj96es.fsf@bam.nordberg.se> <41E8262E.9040508@FreeBSD.org>
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Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> wrote Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:06:06 -0500: | The dependencies ARE correct. When you upgrade individual ports, | portupgrade only attempts to upgrade the ports you specify. When you | run 'portupgrade -a' -- which is how you should be administering your | installed ports -- it upgrades everything in the correct That's quite a daring move on a critical system. Some ports tend to ruin your configuration by moving config files to a .bak copy and similar. But maybe that's considered bad behaviour for a port and in reality not all that common? | > In the specific case, how would make in textproc/libxslt (Makefile | > 1.69) know that libxml2 should be installed before building? | | Because of the line | USE_GNOME?= gnomehack gnometarget libxml2 | | The effect of that line is to register a dependency upon libxml2. Oh, I totally missed that. *blush* But still, that doesn't say anything about which version of libxml2 that's required. Of course, if we all use portupgrade -R for everything, things will work smoothly and perhaps that's the right thing in order to save us from having to maintain all the details manually. Anyway, thanks for all the help and for putting up with less informed questions.help
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