From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 8: 5:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5CBE37B8EA for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de) Received: (qmail 92591 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2000 15:05:06 -0000 Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.121) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 19 Jul 2000 15:05:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 93668 invoked by uid 145); 19 Jul 2000 15:05:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 2000 15:05:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:05:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Conrad To: Tobias Roth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Walter Subject: Re: How to upgrade Ports like x11/gnome? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Tobias Roth wrote: > > I'd like to ask about the policy when upgrading a port. > > pkg_version -c > > this tells you which installed ports are outdated (in reference to you > /usr/ports directory) and what you have to type to update them. You should > read the manpages before asking such questions. But this even deletes all the shared libs of the outdated version - right? (say in case of libraries etc.) For example, if a user of our cluster runs some program (installed by that user) which depends on a special version of the shared libs, I cannot go ahead and delete it... So my question was on how to upgrade to a new version of a port, of course without loosing any functionality. Any hints? greets -Jan > > greets, hw > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message