From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 19 1:24:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD1E437B405 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27648 invoked by uid 0); 19 Feb 2002 09:17:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 09:17:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 53860 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Feb 2002 09:17:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:17:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Alan Eldridge Cc: FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: Is there a way to tell pkg_add *not* to auto-install deps? Message-ID: <20020219091726.GA52954@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20020218232103.GA89544@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020218232103.GA89544@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 2002-02-18 (18:21), Alan Eldridge wrote: > See subject line. I don't see it in the man page. That would be extremely > nice for when a package brings in a dep that stomps on the files of another > installed package. I have a patch at home - this isn't currently available. (hint - this makes "portupgrade -aPP" with your package path set to some place you generated or downloaded tons of packages at work/university much easier at home. Otherwise pkg_add decides it needs to update the exact package version that happens to be sitting next to your package, causing an utter disaster...) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message