Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:37:23 +0100 (CET) From: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de> To: "Passki, Jonathan P" <jpasski@kpmg.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: pkg_version Message-ID: <14885.12483.338680.900539@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> In-Reply-To: <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881AEC@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com> References: <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881AEC@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com>
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[Passki, Jonathan P] [...] > Feel free to flame, I put on the fire retardant suit when I wrote > this :) I'm blaming most of this on myself for perhaps a lack of > understanding, but there have been many before with the same > question. Also, wouldn't this be good advocacy to house a more > robust port system? Yes. Package upgrading should really be a bit cleaner. What I usually end up doing is to move the +REQUIRED_BY file away from the /var/db/pkg directory, delete the port, reinstall it, and move the +REQUIRED_BY file into /var/db/pkg directory again. Also, for deinstalling all packages that depends on one particular package, one might do something like: pkg_info -qR <package name> | xargs pkg_delete -f What I really miss though, is for the pkg_ utilities to be able to recognize bare package names (i.e., without the version suffix). Is there any reason for not having this feature? eSk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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