Intelligent way of dealing with dependancies in ports

Zimmerman, Eric Zimmerman.Eric at con-way.com
Thu May 11 08:20:34 PDT 2006


> >
> > What's the intelligent way of dealing with the problem?
> > (Prefferably the one which does not include downloading 600+ MB of
> source
> > every time :-( )
> 
> portupgrade...
> 
> something close to portupgrade -rR firefox and you're done.
> 
> i usually run with a -n first to see what it wants to upgrade...

I find portmanager to do the trick when updating ports, including all
dependencies. Works great


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