From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 11 08:44:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C1116A469 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:44:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EE213C461 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:43:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot26.obsecurity.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9461A4D7E; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot26.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3B92BBB9E; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:43:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:43:59 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Rakhesh Sasidharan Message-ID: <20070811084358.GA21364@rot26.obsecurity.org> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:44:00 -0000 --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrade= =20 > and other tools for upgrading installed applications to their newer=20 > versions, how did things work out? >=20 > Did one upgrade applications through a series of "make deinstall=20 > reinstall" commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependencies= =20 > too) or was there any other way? Basically that, plus a lot of other manual steps that were always somewhat hard to get exactly right but which more or less worked back in the days when Gnomes lived in your garden and Java was a place on the map. It was a simpler, more innocent age. Kris --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGvXbOWry0BWjoQKURAp+zAJ43EMMCBhWo+QGIEBT7DTrazYWEkACgsF3m KGs7FqBDSnqftStUMFj1X0w= =z9mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--