From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 9:27:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6005837B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfisher@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4FGR7u80758; Tue, 15 May 2001 12:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psych.ward.vt.edu ([128.173.242.19]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0GDD0082VXP6RZ@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Tue, 15 May 2001 12:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:27:06 -0400 From: Daniel Fisher Subject: Re: pkg_update In-reply-to: To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: daniel.fisher@vt.edu Message-id: <01051512270602.17969@psych.ward.vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 14 May 2001 15:41, you 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 Thanks Chris, this seems to work well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but portupgrade will not work if you are upgrading to a port which produces a newer shared object.. So if your current version of png is libpng.so.4 & you compile the newest version which produces libpng.so.5 This will break any applications which were compiled to use libpng.so.4 Is that right? Or does portupgrade fix this as well? -- Daniel Fisher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message