Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 03:06:41 -0800 (PST) From: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org> To: Christian Taylor <phazer@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports question Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9912200303100.23275-100000@obscurity.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLMNOHKHIPCJHGCKJCEDBCBAA.phazer@ns.sympatico.ca>
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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
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