From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 9: 2:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066F037B401 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEEB43F93 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by cordis.lu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h2II9l61021764; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:09:47 +0100 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:59:56 +0100 Received: from [212.190.217.220] (212.190.217.220 [212.190.217.220]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id H1F1TV7Q; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:59:51 +0100 From: CARTER Anthony To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade ? In-Reply-To: <20030318095553.F18308@asu.edu> References: <20030318095553.F18308@asu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1048007217.44428.114.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 18 Mar 2003 18:06:57 +0100 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 Nope. pkgdb -F fixes the package database and removes old entries... Anthony On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:55, David Bear wrote: > I've been searching the handbook and can't seem to find what I'm > looking for regarding upgrading a port. I know there is > portupgrade... which I'd like to avoid because I don't want to install > ruby as well. > > I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports > collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, > running cvsup, the make install again for a preexisting port will mess > up the pkg-data base right? So, if I only want to upgrade a single > port, is the recommended way > > 1) pkg_deinstall > 2) cvsup ports collection > 3) pkg_install again (or make install) > > This seems rather poor as I don't want to have all the downtime > between deinstalling and installing again. > > If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the > pkg data base? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message