Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:08:24 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: epiphany Message-ID: <opr02fsan88ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <E1AboNs-000A0C-4d@ran.psg.com> References: <E1AbnEZ-0008DI-Uq@ran.psg.com> <opr02e1vgt8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <E1AboNs-000A0C-4d@ran.psg.com>
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:00:07 -0800, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: >> On another note: You should learn more about portupgrade, it's in >> sysutils/portupgrade. Search for 'portupgrade' in google and you should >> get a lot of very good articles about it in the first page of result. > > thanks for the pointer, but i have been using the portupgrade stuff > for a couple of years. > > there seem to be delicate issues with dependencies which > portsdb -Uu This one is not need for the dependencies. It's only useful for the search and portversion. > pkgdb -u > pkgdb -Ff > just don't handle automagically. I usually do this: pkgdb -F portupgrade -ra It's very rare for me to get the problem unless some apps need rebuild, then I have to tell portupgrade what to rebuild everything that depend on. Cheers, Mezz > randy -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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