From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 4:44:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-195.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CB537B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 04:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mr@zigman.2y.net) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AD9851E91; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:44:30 +0200 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading a port Message-ID: <20010802134430.B80477@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <20010731113845.A90101@zigman.2y.net> <20010731025130.A25609@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010731121544.A98758@zigman.2y.net> <20010731040254.A28232@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010731133508.A99300@zigman.2y.net> <20010731121304.C34978@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010731121304.C34978@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3 [up 4 days, 29 mins] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se 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 Can I use pkg_deinstall instead of make deinstall? I tried it and it seems to work fine, but I'm not sure so I thought I'd better ask. :) On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:13:05PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Cant I unregister it from the database through pkg_delete? > > Yes, but that screws up the dependency registration of other packages > which depend on the port you're deletng, or which it depended on. > portupgrade retains those linkages in place so it can automatically > upgrade child/parent ports when needed. > > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message