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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:38:43 +0100
From:      Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large port updates
Message-ID:  <20041207163843.GL9803@elch.haidundneu23.net>
In-Reply-To: <41B5D08B.1070608@fer.hr>
References:  <41B5D08B.1070608@fer.hr>

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## Ivan Voras (ivoras@fer.hr):

> Is there a "best practice" for automated updating large number of 
> interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I 
> wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an 
> existing one, and fail.

portupgrade works in most cases, but...

> My current example is gnome. Recently, whatever I want to install 
> requires gnome2.8 - how to update the giant list of gnome libs & apps? 

Not in this case. Check /usr/ports/UPDATING 20041107:
: Do NOT use portupgrade(1) to update your GNOME 2.6 desktop to 2.8

Gruss,
Christoph

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