From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 2:53: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obscurity.org (obscurity.org [209.17.177.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8CF5150CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cengland@obscurity.org) Received: (qmail 26760 invoked by uid 1003); 20 Dec 1999 11:06:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 1999 11:06:41 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 03:06:41 -0800 (PST) From: Chris England To: Christian Taylor Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Ports question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Christian, You can use pkg_info in order to list the packages that you currently have installed. You may use pkg_delete to remove them, then download the latest version of the package, or port, and install it. If you keep a ports directory tree, you can use make deinstall (or was it uninstall?) to remove it, and once again install the latest port in it's place. Hope this helps, Cheers, -Chris England On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, 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! > > -Christian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message