From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 24 10:47:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA09439 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09432 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 0.56 #1) id E0vGTsF-0000ZE-00; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:47:19 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: FreeBSD pkg system vs Debian dpkg Cc: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:16:07 PDT." <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com> References: <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:47:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > - ports dependencies are a little simple- there's a check if needed libs : > (e.g. tcl/tk/perl etc.) are installed, if not, they're installed, too. : > But pkg_add isn't checking if an older version of the to-be-installed : > package exists. You're ending up with many different pkg entries if you : > don't take care about this. : : You should get back to the poster and suggest that he update his package : sets and tools - this was fixed with an MD5 checksum method about a : month ago. You have fixed the problem where I have gerbils 1.1 installed, and then build gerbils 1.2 and I still have the gerbils 1.1 packge in /var/db/pkg and maybe some stale files laying around from gerbils 1.1? I don't recall seeing this change go by, but would bless those that made it happen if that was the case :-). : I, of course, plan to do both. Jordan, one of the first signs you are going mad is when you start to do imitations of the animals around you. I had to get a job outside the house because my dinnertime converstaion with friends with friends was "and here's how my black lab Snickers eats his dinner, its so cute..." Warner