Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:56:52 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2 Message-ID: <d7195cff0602041256w60d18a24mf74f8e111faae44@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43E4FD62.3040401@gti.net> References: <43E4FD62.3040401@gti.net>
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On 2/4/06, Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> wrote: > /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 > run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of > its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run > portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identified? Yes. Tediously. I have about 74 things that depend on expat. Or you could ignore the whole thing until something important depending on expat needs upgrading and do the mess then. Firefox might count as this, maybe X. Both of which seem to have updates this last week. > I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a > dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in > this situation. Shouldn't matter for most of them if you didn't delete your distfiles as they are merely(!) being rebuilt with expat 2. If you deleted your distfiles, or close with make distclean you will have to download them anew, sadly. -- --
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