Required update on dependant port

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 14:00:19 PST 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How would a port such as mail/thunderbird-enigmail (which AFIK should be
> in security/ anyway) indicate that it must be updated whenever
> Thunderbird is updated?
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> Eitan Adler

Can't be done via packages unless you bump the version number.

This can be done with ports by looking at the BUILD_DEP field though.
This is the field that portupgrade uses, and I assume that portmaster,
use.

-Garrett


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