On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:20:33AM -0500, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >I'm rather tired of having to update firefox port due security fixes and > >then having to build the new versions of > >glib, expat, and so on an so on, every one of which complains that tere > >are older versions of the lib installed. > > > >I've tried pkg_delete -f and install of the newer version, but then all > >the binaries in the system started complaining > >because they don't find the exact version of the shared library they are > >compiled with. > > > >What's the intelligent way of dealing with the problem? > >(Prefferably the one which does not include downloading 600+ MB of source > >every time :-( ) > > portupgrade... > > something close to portupgrade -rR firefox and you're done. > > i usually run with a -n first to see what it wants to upgrade...
portmanager is also good for this sort of thing. # portmanager www/firefox -f -l will do pretty much the same thing as Philip's portupgrade command. If you keep your distfiles around, then you will only need to download any source files that have changed since last build (This applies to both portupgrade and portmanager). To help keep on top of distfiles and packages, you can use the portsclean utility that is installed as part of portupgrade. (I have both ports installed on my machines, as both are very useful.) HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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