From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 10:12:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F52437B54C for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12o880-0003Ej-01; Sat, 6 May 2000 19:12:32 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA14733 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 May 2000 18:42:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Updating software from the ports-collection Date: 6 May 2000 18:42:28 +0200 Message-ID: <8f1i1k$ec5$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland wrote: > I can now normally build and install the new version, but I wonder > what happens to the old version? Its files will be overwritten by > the new version, so that whenever I use the software I use the new > version. But will the old version remain marked as installed in > FreeBSD's database? Yes. > I'm asking this question because I don't know if I should (for > example) remove siag-3.2.0 before I install siag-3.3.3 You should. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message