Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:55 +1000 From: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Force installation of dependencies Message-ID: <4ADEE9E7.9080906@maydias.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0910202208r4a51d68cw7c60c4d181cf7a4c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADE85A1.10403@maydias.com> <6201873e0910202116s70f767b9pf3db46b73c809465@mail.gmail.com> <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com> <6201873e0910202208r4a51d68cw7c60c4d181cf7a4c@mail.gmail.com>
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53 PM, Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com <mailto:shinjii@maydias.com> <mailto:shinjii@maydias.com <mailto:shinjii@maydias.com>>> wrote: > > > is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will > tell it > to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that > particular pkg ? > > > Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're > not using a port managment tools to handling installing and > upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster > or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. > > > -- > Adam Vande More > > i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to > my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of > solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping > will solve my issue > > > portupgrade -Rf <portname> should do the trick. This has made a huge difference an has indeed helped to get a lot of troublesome ports done. Many tnxs for the help :)
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