Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:41:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: <daniel.fisher@vt.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pkg_update Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105141439400.35214-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <01051415262702.79187@psych.ward.vt.edu>
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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
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