From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 12:13: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-69.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5015037B406 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F67B66E27; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:13:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Morsal Roudbay Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading a port Message-ID: <20010731121304.C34978@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010731113845.A90101@zigman.2y.net> <20010731025130.A25609@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010731121544.A98758@zigman.2y.net> <20010731040254.A28232@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010731133508.A99300@zigman.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010731133508.A99300@zigman.2y.net>; from morsal@swipnet.se on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:35:08PM +0200 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 --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Cant I unregister it from the database through pkg_delete? Yes, but that screws up the dependency registration of other packages which depend on the port you're deletng, or which it depended on. portupgrade retains those linkages in place so it can automatically upgrade child/parent ports when needed. Kris --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ZwNAWry0BWjoQKURAo1zAJ9zIE7gHpsXFmCAHbRwSumqdPhz/QCeIyKP NR5oCtPGC1r7qdF8V2OflSw= =m9OG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message