Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:44:24 +0000 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade Upgrade Question Message-ID: <cvLTYHBoezR8Ewxk@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <01a101c19f8d$b52db040$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <01a101c19f8d$b52db040$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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In message <01a101c19f8d$b52db040$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes >I used the pkg_info command to see what I have installed on my system. >Amongst other things, it reports the following: > >portupgrade-20020103 Very powerful FreeBSD ports/packages upgrading tool >portupgrade-20020117 Very powerful FreeBSD ports/packages upgrading tool >pkg_tarup-1.2_1 Generates binary package from installed package >pkg_tarup-1.2_3 Generates binary package from installed package >ruby-optparse-0.8 Yet another command line option parser for Ruby >ruby-optparse-0.8.6 Yet another command line option parser for Ruby > >I'm sure this happened as I used portupgrade to upgrade portupgrade. So >I'd like to remove the old versions. I ran pkg_deinstall -n and it >looks like the new versions overwrote the old versions since there is a >checksum error. Is this correct? Actually I think the point of portupgrade is to stop that happening, it's supposed to do everything nice and cleanly. >If it is correct, then I assume I only need to delete the entries from >the package database. pkgdb -F picks up these duplicates and asks if I >want to remove them. Yep, it really is that simple. pkgdb is great for cleaning up /var/db/ports >Thus, I think I should remove these duplicates. Is this the right thing >to do? It's certainly what I'd do. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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