From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 11:16:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7837316A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7C143FBD for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9CIGrLQ043928 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "Noah" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:16:53 -0800 Message-Id: <20031012171927.M50641@enabled.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.01 20030425 X-OriginatingIP: 64.121.33.4 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: make.conf modifications? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:16:55 -0000 FreeBSD-4.8-STABLE okay when I am 'make install' new proggies in the /usr/ports directory an install will fail because one of the associated programs has been Updated in /usr/ports . it is Necessary for me to go to the programs /usr/port directory and deinstall and reinstall it with its new version. any way to make this process more transparent and all associated programs automatically get upgraded or reinstalled with the more recent version. is there a modification that i can place in the make.conf file to do this? - Noah