From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 24 15:21:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26302 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26296 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA14997; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:18:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Warner Losh cc: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD pkg system vs Debian dpkg In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:47:18 MDT." Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:18:54 -0700 Message-ID: <14995.846195534@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > You have fixed the problem where I have gerbils 1.1 installed, and > then build gerbils 1.2 and I still have the gerbils 1.1 packge in > /var/db/pkg and maybe some stale files laying around from gerbils 1.1? Yes. Any files which were changed by gerbils 1.2 will not match the original checksum and will hence not be removed. > I don't recall seeing this change go by, but would bless those that > made it happen if that was the case :-). Try it. :-) > Jordan, one of the first signs you are going mad is when you start to > do imitations of the animals around you. I had to get a job outside > the house because my dinnertime converstaion with friends with friends > was "and here's how my black lab Snickers eats his dinner, its so > cute..." But... All my friends eat that way! Jordan