From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 17: 9: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8662113CA for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06262; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:38:39 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902182208.PAA09529@ima2wk6.ima2> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:38:38 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Matt Meola Subject: Re: Port upgrade check/report tool Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18-Feb-99 Matt Meola wrote: > The only thing is, making a port will install over an older version, > yet the pkg stuff for the old version remains in /var/db/pkg/. So, is > it proper to do a "make deinstall" before the "make all install"? Its a good idea.. Otherwise you can't properly remove the old port :) This means you don't get your system cluttered with fluff from old ports. It must be said that you don't always want to do it this way though.. eg GTK et al.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message