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Date:      30 Oct 2002 14:11:42 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How flexible _is_ the use of ports?
Message-ID:  <1036008702.460.29.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021030150951.J618@numachi.com>
References:  <20021030150951.J618@numachi.com>

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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 14:09, Brian Reichert wrote:
> The lastest rev of my desktop, I committed to the use of ports to
> introduce software to the system.  I'm quite impressed with the
> amount of work that people have put into this; it does quite a bit
> for me.
> 
> I had a recent hard crash (which I rebooted from successfully)
> revealed some misbehavior on Mozilla's port.  No biggie, I said,
> I'll just reinstall it from ports.
> 
> This didn't clear up my problem; seemingly the issue is not with
> Mozilla, but with one of the build- or run-dependancies.
> 
> Is there a way to ask a port, and all of it's dependancies (and
> theirs, recursively) to be reinstalled, while honoring FORCE_PKG_REGISTER?
> 
> The try-one-at-a-time method is _quite_ tiring...
> 
> Oh, this under 4.5-RELEASE, FWIW...
portupgrade -fr portname

(/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade). 

(or is it portupgrade -fR? )  read the man page. 


> 
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