From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 19:38: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.total.net (rossine.total.net [154.11.89.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 867AD37B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:38:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cckok00@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 29115 invoked from network); 15 May 2001 02:38:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (154.20.97.87) by smtp.total.net with SMTP; 15 May 2001 02:38:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3B0096A2.96F32F13@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:38:26 -0400 From: Peter Kok X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh-TW,zh-CN MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: daniel.fisher@vt.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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