upgrade port, a couple of questions

Scott Oertel freebsd at scottevil.com
Wed Aug 2 22:04:42 UTC 2006


Nicolas Blais wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I see which ports depend on
>> libgmp-4.1.4_1?
>>
>> If I upgrade it, the applications that are using
>> the old libgmp would be affected?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Efren Bravo.
>>     
>
> If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you'll see a file called 
> +REQUIRED_BY. Read it (cat "+REQUIRED_BY") to see which ports require libgmp.
>
> You usually do not have to rebuild those ports unless there was a major change 
> in the library. It's up to you to know if you need to rebuild them or not.
>
> Nicolas.
>
>   
This is a question i've had for a while, so this ("+REQUIRED_BY") checks 
what depends on libgmp, how do you check what libgmp depends on?


Scott.


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