From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 14:29:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F5E37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7947443E77 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AB956BF; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:29:35 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hanspeter Roth Subject: Re: version dependency blues with ports Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:29:35 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020826232102.A16222@gicco.cablecom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20020826232102.A16222@gicco.cablecom.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020826212935.8AB956BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 26 August 2002 13:21, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Hello, > > frequently when I want to install a port it depends on other ports > which are installed in an older version than the new port thinks it > requires. > I'm not sure whether really all ports that the new one depends on > must be upgraded. > Some ports have 10 or more dependencies. And it takes time to first > upgrade almost all of them. > > Is there an means to force installing a port without also installing > the very latest version of port it depends on but which are > installed in an older version? > > -Hanspeter > Yes, try portupgrade (in the ports) it does a very good job of keeping track of dependencies. Only upgrading when it's required. You also have the option of upgrading everything should you choose. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message