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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:57:47 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Richard Fairfield <rcf@ms.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freetype2 after XFree86-4 install
Message-ID:  <20020611155747.GC14164@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0206110835460.504121-100000@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
References:  <Pine.OSF.4.33.0206110835460.504121-100000@entropy.ms.washington.edu>

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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

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