From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 8:57: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7E237B43E for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D345A43E31 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g69FnDd1082871; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:49:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:49:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020709154912.GA20718@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020709113549.GA249@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709113549.GA249@lpt.ens.fr> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 09), Rahul Siddharthan said: > I'm not subscribed to this list but I happened on this discussion in > the archives today. > > One mild peeve I've had about FreeBSD's ports system is the > difficulty of deleting an old package which has been overwritten by a > new package. Suppose you had installed foo-1.3.1, and then another > port you were installing overwrote this with foo-1.3.2. Now both are > registered in /var/db/pkg but you can't pkg_delete foo-1.3.1 because > it will remove files with common names from foo-1.3.2. If you use portupgrade to install ports and packages, it will deinstall the old port before installing the new one. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message