Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:24:48 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install newer version over old one... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070922290.393-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910062236340.24161-100000@guru.phone.net>
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What would it take to fix that? I just took a very quick peak, and am not
sure how its done now, but having it use DISTNAME to create that directory
should do it, no?
If DISTNAME not found in /var/db/pkg, install ...
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 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
>
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