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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 15:17:08 -0600
From:      Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Right way to upgrade a port
Message-ID:  <19990526151708.D344@fisicc-ufm.edu>

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I was just wondering what is the right way to upgrade a port...
say i have foobar-1.2 and the port has been upgraded to foobar-2.0

do I

1. pkg_delete foobar-1.2
   cd /usr/ports/misc/foobar
   make install

2. cd /usr/ports/misc/foobar
   make install

the main difference being deleting the package first and installing then
the new version or just installing the new version on top of the old one?
how do you guys do it and why?

regards,

-Oscar

p.s. wouln't it be cool if you could install on top of the old version
and later remove the new version just to find out that the old version
still works. :)

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