Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> To: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to people easily update ports with dependencies (such as galeon)? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104191246370.25333-100000@fraser.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010419101202.A24896@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > * Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [010418 20:20]: > > Does this maintain dependencies of all the ports? For example, if > > foobar-3.0 depends on barfoo-4.0 and we upgrade barfoo-4.0 to 5.0, > > is the dependency from foobar-3.0 updated to depend on barfoo-5.0? > > Not really no, and I wouldn't recommned running theresulting script directly. > Putting the new glib over the old one won't break anything. > You can pkg_delete -f glib.... > and them put a new one back in , but that could be risky > if the libraries have changed significantly. What about someone's suggestion to manually change the +REQUIRED and +CONTENTS of the appropriate packages to reflect the new port? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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