Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:27:06 -0400 From: Daniel Fisher <dfisher@vt.edu> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update Message-ID: <01051512270602.17969@psych.ward.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105141439400.35214-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105141439400.35214-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Monday 14 May 2001 15:41, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Daniel Fisher wrote: > > Is the pkg_update command supposed to solve package dependency > > problems? I haven't been able to get it to work (Release 4.3), so > > if anyone can tell me how to use it I would appreciate it. > > > > Just recently I wanted to upgrade the png package. However I have > > 20 some packages that depend on this & I don't want to recompile > > everything. It would be cool to finally have a solution for this. > > Try ports/sysutils/portupgrade. It was designed for this situation. > It has worked well for me so far. > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. > http://www.freebsd.org Thanks Chris, this seems to work well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but portupgrade will not work if you are upgrading to a port which produces a newer shared object.. So if your current version of png is libpng.so.4 & you compile the newest version which produces libpng.so.5 This will break any applications which were compiled to use libpng.so.4 Is that right? Or does portupgrade fix this as well? -- Daniel Fisher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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