Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:53:05 +1000 Warren Liddell (shin...@maydias.com) replied: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? portmanager: to add/update/repair a single port with logging and forcing all of it's dependencies to be rebuilt portmanager x11/gnome2 -l -f -- Jerry |=== ges...@yahoo.com|=== |=== |=== | From 0 to what seems to be the problem officer in 8.3 seconds. Ad for the new VW Corrado ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue portupgrade -Rf portname should do the trick. This has made a huge difference an has indeed helped to get a lot of troublesome ports done. Many tnxs for the help :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Warren Liddell wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Depending on what you mean by dependency, either portupgrade -rf pkg or portupgrade -Rf pkg -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
Warren Liddell wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap fetch update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Al Plant wrote: I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. portsnap updates the ports tree. AFAIK, it will not help with updating ports that have already been installed. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Force installation of dependencies
is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.comwrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.comwrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.commailto: shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue portupgrade -Rf portname should do the trick. pkgdb -L sometimes helps -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
