Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:38:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install newer version over old one... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910062236340.24161-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910062022240.10045-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: :->What We Need <TM> is a system which decouples the name of a port and the :->version number, so you can 'make upgrade' and it will remove the old :->version before reinstalling the new one (which has a different port name). :->Optionally, it will also rebuild all the child dependencies as well. Yup. In /usr/ports, it should poke through /var/db/pkg to figure out what's installed, and then remake those things. Doing the dependencies would probably be the easy part. However, there isn't an obvious connection from /var/db/pkg entries to ports. At least, not that I've been able to find. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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