From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 22:34:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B902B16A4DD for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CAF43D45 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:34:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from [172.23.170.146] (helo=anti-virus03-09) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G8PHx-0003EH-23 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:34:05 +0100 Received: from [82.35.115.93] (helo=[192.168.10.60]) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G8PHw-0003Bn-27 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:34:04 +0100 Message-ID: <44D12858.8030704@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:34:00 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060417) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060802212710.46366.qmail@web25214.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200608021747.23216.nb_root@videotron.ca> <44D12178.8060007@scottevil.com> In-Reply-To: <44D12178.8060007@scottevil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions 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, 02 Aug 2006 22:34:06 -0000 Scott Oertel wrote: > Nicolas Blais wrote: >> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How can I see which ports depend on >>> libgmp-4.1.4_1? >>> >>> If I upgrade it, the applications that are using >>> the old libgmp would be affected? >>> >>> Thanks... >>> >>> Efren Bravo. >>> >> >> If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you'll see a file called >> +REQUIRED_BY. Read it (cat "+REQUIRED_BY") to see which ports require >> libgmp. >> >> You usually do not have to rebuild those ports unless there was a >> major change in the library. It's up to you to know if you need to >> rebuild them or not. >> >> Nicolas. >> >> > This is a question i've had for a while, so this ("+REQUIRED_BY") checks > what depends on libgmp, how do you check what libgmp depends on? pkg_info? -r Show the list of packages on which each package depends. -R Show the list of installed packages which require each package. Also I've found portmanager copes pretty well with most dependencies. Chris > > > Scott. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > >