Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:28:16 +0100 (MET) From: Helge Oldach <Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com> To: jim@siteplus.net (Jim Weeks) Cc: david@bushong.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mvh@ix.netcom.com, kaltorak@quake.com.au Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Message-ID: <200102111228.NAA06399@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081914380.546-100000@veager.siteplus.net> from Jim Weeks at "Feb 8, 2001 7:18:50 pm"
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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? Having two versions of one port installed is generally a Bad Thing as it may result in orphan files. Helge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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