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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:58:04 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Huub van Niekerk <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>
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Cc: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: update packages by pkg_add
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:53:28 +0200, Huub van Niekerk wrote:
> Thank you for your answer. But how about if the package-to-be-replaced is a
> dependency? Just remember the dependency and do the same ?

As you're going to reinstall the package immediately,
there won't be a problem. Of course, a depending program
won't properly run until you've actually replaced the
package in question.

For keeping track of dependencies, you can also use
portmaster or portupgrade and use -P and -PP options
to work with packages (like pkg_add does) instead of
compiling from sources. The "pkgdb -aF" command will
properly store dependency informations.


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