Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:42:40 -1000 From: Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net> To: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Force installation of dependencies Message-ID: <4ADF5620.5060204@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com> References: <4ADE85A1.10403@maydias.com> <6201873e0910202116s70f767b9pf3db46b73c809465@mail.gmail.com> <4ADE912D.9060309@maydias.com>
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Warren Liddell wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell <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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Aloha, I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap fetch update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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