Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 15:02:12 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        David Andrzejewski <dave@freebsd.awyeah.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rebuilding ports dependencies?
Message-ID:  <01051515021200.02744@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010515153536.X60720-100000@shell.awyeah.net>
References:  <20010515153536.X60720-100000@shell.awyeah.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 12:37, David Andrzejewski wrote:
> Hey,
>
> When I upgrade a port to the latest version, I usually do a "pkg_delete -f
> <oldport>" after I've built the new one, and I then install the new one.
> However, this doesn't update dependencies, so when I go to "clean up" my
> system, I don't get warned about ports I've updated, and that tends to
> break things.
>
> I know you can do this with packages via the pkg_update command, but is
> there a way to do this with the ports collection?
>
> - David
>
>Portupgrade works for me. It's in the ports collection.

Beech
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------
     Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org
/"\   ASCII Ribbon Campaign  | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission
\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail  | P.O. Box 230510
 X  - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510
/ \ -----------------------------------------------------------------












To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?01051515021200.02744>