> I hope someone can give an answer to this question from a newbie: how can > I handle situations when an already installed package (say A) needs to be > upgraded due to a newly installed package (say B) as it's being a > dependency for it but another already installed package (say C) still > needs the older version of package A? Upgrading package C may be thought > of as help but it disappeared from the 7.1 package repo and as far as I > could see it was last present in 7.0_2017Q1.
% cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-A % sudo make clean && sudo make replace If the above breaks pkg-C: % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-C % sudo make clean && sudo make clean-depends && sudo make update HTH, jgw