From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 14:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08591 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08413 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16373; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Mutsaers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is a normal way to upgrade a package? In-Reply-To: <87pvguubay.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering how I should upgrade a package. > Example: when I want to upgrade xpm-3.4j to xpm-3.4k, I first have to > remove 3.4j, because installing 3.4k will overwrite files from 3.4j > (pity it doesn't automatically deinstall the old version and then > install 3.4k, like Redhat's rpm's of debian's .deb packages do). It's a pain, I know, I'm usually evil and install right over old versions ;) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message