From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 11 16:40:25 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 79F3416A46B for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:40:25 +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 DE40713C48E for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:40:24 +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 99AB61A4D7C; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot26.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3AD88BF60; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:24 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Tobias Roth Message-ID: <20070811164024.GA26248@rot26.obsecurity.org> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20070811084358.GA21364@rot26.obsecurity.org> <46BD8352.4000605@fsck.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46BD8352.4000605@fsck.ch> 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 16:40:25 -0000 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrad= e=20 > >> and other tools for upgrading installed applications to their newer=20 > >> versions, how did things work out? > >> > >> Did one upgrade applications through a series of "make deinstall=20 > >> reinstall" commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependenc= ies=20 > >> too) or was there any other way? > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > There was pkg_version -c that printed a sequence of >=20 > cd /usr/ports/foo/bar > make > make deinstall > make install > make clean >=20 > or something like that. Whatever broke was fixed manually afterwards :-) > Oh, and there was no UPDATING in /usr/ports/ as well I think. Old-timers will tell you that pkg_version is a new-fangled invention, and back in the day they had to slave for hours over a hot keyboard to run all those make commands by hand :) Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGveZ4Wry0BWjoQKURAoSSAKCURUBccXSXjrnUZflfQd7IVeE42ACg7x4W kaiMz4bJ47z+GcZ7cgNSQng= =hbw5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--