From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 14:38:44 2002 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 8843B37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piwebs.com (t-indiv5-88.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73E6D43E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 61591 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2002 21:39:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO amd760.piwebs.com) (192.168.0.114) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 21:39:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hanspeter Roth Subject: Re: version dependency blues with ports Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:38:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20020826232102.A16222@gicco.cablecom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20020826232102.A16222@gicco.cablecom.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208262338.59120.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need sysutils/portupgrade. See its manpage for all the options you ha= ve=20 (=3Da lot:). Arjan van Leeuwen On Monday 26 August 2002 23:21, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Hello, > > frequently when I want to install a port it depends on other ports > which are installed in an older version than the new port thinks it > requires. > I'm not sure whether really all ports that the new one depends on > must be upgraded. > Some ports have 10 or more dependencies. And it takes time to first > upgrade almost all of them. > > Is there an means to force installing a port without also installing > the very latest version of port it depends on but which are > installed in an older version? > > -Hanspeter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message