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From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Espen Skoglund wrote:

> [Passki, Jonathan P]
> 
>   [...]
> 
> > Feel free to flame, I put on the fire retardant suit when I wrote
> > this :) I'm blaming most of this on myself for perhaps a lack of
> > understanding, but there have been many before with the same
> > question.  Also, wouldn't this be good advocacy to house a more
> > robust port system?
> 
> Yes.  Package upgrading should really be a bit cleaner.  What I
> usually end up doing is to move the +REQUIRED_BY file away from the
> /var/db/pkg directory, delete the port, reinstall it, and move the
> +REQUIRED_BY file into /var/db/pkg directory again.
> 
> Also, for deinstalling all packages that depends on one particular
> package, one might do something like:
> 
>    pkg_info -qR <package name> | xargs pkg_delete -f
> 
> What I really miss though, is for the pkg_ utilities to be able to
> recognize bare package names (i.e., without the version suffix).  Is
> there any reason for not having this feature?
> 
It's interesting how different people come to the same conclusions.
I'm using the same way to update my packages as well.
If I'll hack the "make install" target and pkg_install, are there any
chances on earth that it'll get committed?

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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