Subject: Re: rebuilding huge packages?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/21/2003 15:34:42
In message <20030321151503.A5318@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>>I want to install emacs21.  But when I try, either from source or
>>the precompiled binary, it tells me that I need libungif>=4.1.0.1.
>>When I attempted to pkg_delete it, I was told that the following packages 
>>relied on it:
>>

...

>>
>>That's a long list, and some of those packages are *very* large.
>>Worse yet, experience suggests that I'll find a pile of others
>>that need to rebuilt.  Is there any sane way to do this?  I haven't
>>had that much luck with 'make update'.
>
>pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgdepgraph.  :)
>

Thanks.  Turns out I needed to upgrade pkgdepgraph first...

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