Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:05:09 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: dave@freebsd.awyeah.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding ports dependencies? Message-ID: <01051515050901.02744@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20010515153536.X60720-100000@shell.awyeah.net> References: <20010515153536.X60720-100000@shell.awyeah.net>
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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
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