From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 8:57:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1164B37B407 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5BFvlEr090795; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:57:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:57:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Richard Fairfield Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freetype2 after XFree86-4 install Message-ID: <20020611155747.GC14164@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Jun 11), Richard Fairfield said: > Today I installed XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 via "pkg_add -vr XFree86.tgz". > After the installation was complete, "pkg_version -v" says this: > > freetype2-2.0.9 < needs updating (port has 2.1.0_1) > > and "pkg_info -R freetype2-2.0.9" says this: > Required by: > XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_1 > XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 > > Me question is, can I do the following to update freetype to the > current version: > > pkg_delete -f freetype2-2.0.9 > cd /usr/ports/print/freetype2; make; make install > > or are the XFree86 packages somehow dependent on the particular > installed version of freetype2 ? The best way to handle upgrades like this is to install the portupgrade package, and run "portupgrade freetype2". Portupgrade will upgrade freetype but keep any old shared libraries, so that ports built with the old version will still work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message