From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 18:42:42 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 38AB21065697 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:42:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68D8FC24 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:42:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15601CDD9; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:42:40 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4ADF5620.5060204@hdk5.net> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:42:40 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Liddell References: <4ADE85A1.10403@maydias.com> <6201873e0910202116s70f767b9pf3db46b73c809465@mail.gmail.com> <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adam Vande More , 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 18:42:42 -0000 Warren Liddell wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Aloha, I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap fetch update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol