Force installation of dependencies
Al Plant
noc at hdk5.net
Wed Oct 21 18:42:42 UTC 2009
Warren Liddell wrote:
> Adam Vande More wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell <shinjii at maydias.com
>> <mailto:shinjii at 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
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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.
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