From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 7:38:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEA237B406 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA11258; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:47:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3B9F7365.6040303@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:38:29 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Upgrading applications References: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3EEA2@mailsvr.ecx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: >Let's say I get a server that comes preinstalled with some applications. >Some are packages/ports and some are just installations from source. Now, I >can uninstall ports and packages fairly easily and then install the latest >versions of the ports fairly easily. But what if I had, let's say Sendmail >1.0, and it was installed from the source. How do I upgrade it to the latest >version? Do I just install over top of it, or do I uninstall the old version >first, or is there an upgrade command...? > Unfortunately, there is no automatic upgrade feature in applications installed from source. To be safe, first remove the software you intend to update. Installing over the old version may leave unwanted pieces lying around and is much harder to debug in case of problems. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message