From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 04:40:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44443106566B for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:40:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shinjii@maydias.com) Received: from relay03.mail-hub.dodo.com.au (relay03.mail-hub.dodo.com.au [123.2.6.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E5C8FC17 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 122-148-122-57.static.dsl.dodo.com.au ([122.148.122.57] helo=enterprise.blackthorn.nu) by relay03.mail-hub.dodo.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1N0SzI-0001Ba-0i; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:39:58 +1100 Message-ID: <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:42:21 +1000 From: Warren Liddell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090410) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4ADE85A1.10403@maydias.com> <6201873e0910202116s70f767b9pf3db46b73c809465@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0910202116s70f767b9pf3db46b73c809465@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Force installation of dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:40:00 -0000 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell > wrote: > > is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it > to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? > > > Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not > using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your > applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll > save yourself a lot of headache. > > > -- > Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue