From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 01:34:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A80F16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BF143D5F for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clint@0lsen.net) Received: from 0lsen.net ([24.20.127.157]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20040506083439013002hs1oe>; Thu, 6 May 2004 08:34:39 +0000 Received: by 0lsen.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F3066710; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 01:34:37 -0700 From: Clint Olsen To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20040506083437.GA20499@0lsen.net> References: <20040506081747.GA7969@0lsen.net> <20040506082107.GA46385@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040506082107.GA46385@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: NULlsen Network X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports gripe X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:34:40 -0000 On May 06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Sounds like you forgot to do 'make all deinstall reinstall' to remove the > old version first ;-) So, is there a way to do this via the port interface? Weaving in and out of make-land seems pretty clunky to me... Port this, pkg that. It's not what I would call 'intuitive'. If this is written down somewhere fairly concisely, please send me a cluepon in the form of a URL. Thanks, -Clint