Does this still work? I got errors and nothing reinstalled.

On Sat, 26 Jan 2003, Rene Hexel wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:48, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> > Right.  I did a 'pkg_delete' pth, saw what was using it, and applied
> > the algorithm recursively.
>
>   You can automate this somewhat by doing something like:
>
>
>   cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/pth
>   make clean-update clean extract
>   touch \
> work/.{extract,patch,buildlink,configure,build,install,package}_done
>   make update
>
>
>   (the "touch" command can be one line without the "\", of course).
> This tricks the pth package sources to think that pth has already been
> re-installed.  The final "make update" then deinstalls and re-compiles
> everything without re-installing pth.
>
> > Of course, I then had to wait while Mozilla and much of Gnome (needed
> > by Gabber) recompiled.  That takes a while...
>
>   This won't change, of course.  But this way you don't have to manually
> compile and install each package.
>
>   Cheers
>       ,
>    Rene
>

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