Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:03:26 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: housecleaning and portupgrade question Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021024110326.00e357f8@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <1035474504.15382.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
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At 10:48 AM 10.24.2002 -0500, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: >I'm doing a little house cleaning and I's appreciate some advice. I'm >looking at a machine that (in the past) has been upgraded with several >methods. Some of which have left old versions of application x on the >machine. For example: > >[kwythers@lorax]~$ pkg_version -v >a2dev-1.2 = up-to-date with port >a2ps-letter-4.13_1 = up-to-date with port >aalib-1.4.r5 < needs updating (port has >1.4.r5_1) >aalib-1.4.r5_1 = up-to-date with port >acroread-5.06_1 = up-to-date with port >acroread4-4.05 = up-to-date with port >autoconf-2.53 < needs updating (port has 2.53_1) >autoconf213-2.13.000227_1 < needs updating (port has >2.13.000227_4) >automake-1.5,1 = up-to-date with port >automake14-1.4.5 < needs updating (port has >1.4.5_5) > >It looks to me like there is no reason for both aalib-1.4.r5 and >aalib-1.4.r5_1. Seems that portupgrade does not cause this problem and >is the prefered upgrade method > >There are numerous examples of this issue. My question is: what is the >recommended way to delete an old version application x. This assumes of >course that you are sure that it is not depended upon by some other app. > >Thanks, > >Kirk > To remove, use the portupgrade "pkg_deinstall". Run man pkg_deinstall for the options that you want. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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