From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 11 20:41: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C9C37B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from veager.siteplus.net (1Cust169.tnt10.chattanooga.tn.da.uu.net [63.22.145.169]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA23967; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:40:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:40:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Weeks To: Helge Oldach Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? In-Reply-To: <200102111228.NAA06399@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Helge Oldach wrote: > Jim Weeks: > >On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David Bushong wrote: > >> I'll try to put a "cleanup" mode in one of these days, but it's rather nasty, > >> since basically you have to: > >> > >> pkg_delete all of the versions (including the most recent), pkg_delete all > >> of the programs that depended on older versions, reinstall/rebuild the most > >> recent version, then rebuild the dependent packages. > > > >You don't really have to do this. You can remove the info files for the > >old versions from /var/db/pkg/. For instance, if you have checked > >pkg_info and found you have two versions of zip ie zip-2.3 and zip-2.2, > >simply rm -r /var/db/pkg/zip-2.2 > > Disagree. Consider that zip-2.2 had added a file /usr/local/where/ever > which is no longer part of zip-2.3. Now you want that one cleaned up as > well, don't you? Well, as I said in an earlier amendment to this thread, no. My opinion of this matter, and it is just that, my opinion. Disk real-estate is cheaper than down time. Sometimes cleaning out every dependacy associated with a critical package can results in the machine becoming inoperable for too long a period. I hold to the opinion that a good house-cleaning, as in moving user files to a completely new installation, is a better choice when you feel things have become to muddled. This is purely my opinion. I appreciate yours ;-) Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message