oops, what have i done!
Tom McLaughlin
tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Jul 28 20:59:00 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 15:13 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> today, when i was auditing what needs to be updated, i came upon this:
>
> autoconf-2.13.000227_5 < needs updating (port has
> 2.13.000227_6)
> autoconf-2.53_3 < needs updating (port has 2.53_4)
> autoconf-2.59_2 < needs updating (port has 2.59_3)
> automake-1.4.6_3 < needs updating (port has 1.4.6_4)
> automake-1.5_3,1 < needs updating (port has 1.5_4,1)
> automake-1.9.6_1 < needs updating (port has 1.9.6_2)
>
> how did i manage to get so many of these 3 things installed? can i assume its
> safe to remove all but the highest version?
>
> thanks,
They're build depends for some of the various ports you have installed
since many ports require different auto* versions to build. You can
just leave them installed since more than likely they will eventually
come back. Upgrading them takes trivial amounts of time.
tom
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