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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
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Subject: Re: pkgdb And pkgng?
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On Fri, 20 May 2016 08:31:15 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I install from ports not packages and occasionally have to do a forced 
> removal to get an upgrade to work.

If I understand the pkg mechanism correctly, this doesn't make any
difference. Issuing "make install" creates a pkg-style package which
then gets installed, and "make deinstall" lets pkg remove installed
software. Both tasks involve dealing with the package database.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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