From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 08:49:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1E7AC6 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFF08FC0C for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id GYpG1k00B516WCc01YpHfx; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:18 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=GZiVbHrL c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=zRMSIEZPnIEA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=FBQl176IrJwA:10 a=AaProHwjk0SoM6XXYnwA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TSOYW-0000s2-FE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:16 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20121027221916.1eff3d9e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201210280849.16227.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,TW_BP autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:49:20 -0000 On Sunday 28 October 2012 01:17:46 Manish Jain wrote: > Consider me a newbie here. How do I do wide-reinstall ? You can do this with ports-mgmt/portmaster. See the section "Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports" at the end of the examples section of the man page. > I don't mind > pulling in and building a few more ports as long as it is not the whole > GNOME2 metaport Rebuilding everything is the least complicated way of fixing the problem. It's a big job but if you don't do that then you're likely to have to keep doing even more firefighting in the future. -- Mike Clarke