Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:02:09 -0400 From: Ron Wilhoite <ronw@bals.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminology question - upgrading one port with another Message-ID: <48A0FD31.1060406@bals.org> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20808111931q7e6d4d7bx9ea90729d8f349d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20808111931q7e6d4d7bx9ea90729d8f349d4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/11/2008 10:31 PM Jim wrote: > I'm trying to update something (actually install KDE4), and In need to > make an 'update chain', but I can't remember the proper term. Namely I > have port found in 'foo/abc' (abc-12345) and want to replace it with > 'var/xyz'. I know there are several ways to do this (one involving > entries in a file in etc?), but I cannot come up with the proper terms > to find what I'm looking for in a search? > > Can anyone tell me a few terms that might help with this one? I've > tried compbinations of "port", "upgrade", "search" and "different", > but that (unsurprisingly) isn't getting anywhere. > portupgrade --origin maybe? From man portupgrade: Replace ghostscript-gnu with ghostscript-afpl: portupgrade -o print/ghostscript-afpl ghostscript-gnu -o / --origin was originally the option to supply a missing origin of an outdated package before FreeBSD 4.2, but this example shows another useful usage. Use portupgrade like this, and all the depen- dencies on the old package (ghostscript-gnu) will be succeeded to the new one (ghostscript-afpl) cleanly, without leaving inconsistency. Ron Wilhoite
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