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To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc: John Kozubik <john@www.kozubik.com>,
	Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 CDT."
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:54:03 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500
> From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> At 12:21 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
> >
> >Rus,
> >
> >Please take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, as it is the
> >appropriate tool for these sort of upgrades.
> >
> >Circumstantial evidence over the years has led me to believe that most
> >ports will actually successfully and without issue overwrite their
> >previous iterations that were also installed via the ports tree (lynx,
> >wget, things like that).
> >
> >-----
> >John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com
> >
> >

> If you don't mind first deinstalling the old port, then a simple way is to:
> # pkg_delete <foo_1>
> ...then cd /usr/ports/foo_2:
> #make install clean
> 
> You are now up to date.....


This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the
dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to
handle these.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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