From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 18: 3:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130A414F0E for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11TxHo-00089S-00; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 03:03:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading program In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:46:02 -0400." <19990922204602.A555@rknebel.uplink.net> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 03:02:59 +0200 Message-ID: <31336.938048579@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:46:02 -0400, Rick Knebel wrote: > If you have a program say kde and you see a newer port available, can you > just install it over the older version or do you have to uninstall the older > version first. For many programs, you can get away with installing over the older version. Sometimes, though, you can get bitten pretty badly by stale files. /etc/make.conf provides a knob that allows you to force package registration, even when older versions of the same package exist. I must admit though, that since you're quite new to the system, it's probably worth your while using pkg_delete to remove existing stuff before you install newer versions. Be careful with the KDE stuff. Any time you see changes, give it a couple of days before using the newer version. If, after a few days, there've been no more changes to the KDE goodies, then it's probably working okay for at least one other person out there. ;-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message