Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 22:38:26 -0400
From:      Peter Kok <cckok00@hotmail.com>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        daniel.fisher@vt.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_update
Message-ID:  <3B0096A2.96F32F13@hotmail.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105141439400.35214-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi Chris Dillon

I don't have this portupgrade under the directory /port/sysutils

how do i do it??

thank you

regards
Peter

Chris Dillon wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Daniel Fisher wrote:
>
> > Is the pkg_update command supposed to solve package dependency
> > problems? I haven't been able to get it to work (Release 4.3), so
> > if anyone can tell me how to use it I would appreciate it.
> >
> > Just recently I wanted to upgrade the png package. However I have
> > 20 some packages that depend on this & I don't want to recompile
> > everything. It would be cool to finally have a solution for this.
>
> Try ports/sysutils/portupgrade.  It was designed for this situation.
> It has worked well for me so far.
>
> -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
>    FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
>    For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development.
>    http://www.freebsd.org
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B0096A2.96F32F13>