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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:08:09 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Force installation of dependencies
Message-ID:  <6201873e0910202208r4a51d68cw7c60c4d181cf7a4c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com>
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>wrote:

> Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com<mailto:
>> shinjii@maydias.com>> 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
>

portupgrade -Rf <portname> should do the trick.

pkgdb -L sometimes helps

-- 
Adam Vande More



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