Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:43:59 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc? Message-ID: <20070811084358.GA21364@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com>
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--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--
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