From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 11:56:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C6937B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:56:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f27JtuW10504; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:55:56 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:55:56 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Doug Poland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading windowmaker via port collection Message-ID: <20010308085556.A9950@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010307100240.A4494@polands.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010307100240.A4494@polands.org>; from doug@polands.org on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:02:41AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:02:41AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running windowmaker 0.62.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. I noticed the > port now points to 0.64.1 and would like to upgrade but have several questions. > > * If I use the port mechanism, do I use: make reinstall? No. Do a make on the windowmaker port, then # pkg_delete windowmaker-0.62.1 # make install > * Will this overwrite my personal configuration settings? No. > * Must I re-run wmaker.inst? No. > * Are there any other issues I need to be aware of? The actual name of your previously installed windowmaker port may vary, check the contents of /var/db/pkg for the canonical name. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message