From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 6 20:21:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat194.229.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12BF157C9; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:20:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA47600; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 00:20:52 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 00:20:51 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Mike Muir , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install newer version over old one... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Mike Muir wrote: > > > > how? I have kde 1.1.1 installed on my machine...want to upgrade to 1.1.2, > > > but a 'make reinstall' (or 'make install') finds all the existing packages > > > so does nothing... > > > > > > need some sort of 'make install-ignoring-the-already-installed-progs' ... > > > is there one? > > > > make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=YES > > Probably safer to manually pkg_delete all of the kde* packages first - > this way you won't get bitten by any dependencies (e.g. linking against > wrong library versions when you recompile, or 1.1.2 finding leftover files > from 1.1.1 and acting weirdly, etc). Plus you won't have any port turds in > your tree from files which disappeared or moved in 1.1.2. > > You might lose some dependency information if you have things like kbiff > installed - you can just edit those back into the +REQUIRED_BY files if it > really bothers you, though. has anyone looked into/thought of some sort of 'make upgrade-all' command that would ignore that a dependency is already installed and reinstall it? basically, skip the check for it to be installed? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message