From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 9: 4:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B11815102 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 11693 invoked from network); 19 Dec 1999 17:04:49 -0000 Received: from userbl46.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.153) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 1999 17:04:49 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA01308; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:04:38 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:04:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Christian Taylor Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Ports question Message-ID: <19991219170438.C323@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:27:09PM -0400, Christian Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about ports/packages that's been bugging me for a while > now. What happens when you want to UPGRADE a port or a package? For > example, right now I have the port of pine 4.10 installed. I'd like to > upgrade this to the latest port of pine 4.21. Do I need to uninstall the > old port first? Or will the new port see that I had the old one installed, > and upgrade it appropriatly? Basically, I don't want to have both 4.10 AND > 4.21 installed. And this applies to any other ports as well, not just pine. > > I couldn't find this documented in the handbook anywhere, so if someone > could clear this up for me, I'd really appreciate it! > pkg_delete(1) the current version, then ``make && make install'' the new one. That will do what you want. pkg_delete(1) won't trash your rc file in $HOME and neither will ``make install'' > -Christian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too ;" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message