From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 17 8:56:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hp06.postech.ac.kr (smtp.postech.ac.kr [141.223.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC6E37B405; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from users.sourceforge.net (surfion4.postech.ac.kr [141.223.126.84]) by hp06.postech.ac.kr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA21371; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:57:13 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3B54606B.DA194EA@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:57:32 +0900 From: "R. Lahaye" Organization: Postech X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: scigraphica-0.7.0 References: <3B531569.2CD5F82B@users.sourceforge.net> <3B53D914.F11E911A@FreeBSD.org> <3B53DFF1.F6F775D5@users.sourceforge.net> <3B540B98.DCE215A9@FreeBSD.org> <3B54115C.6E8CF1B2@users.sourceforge.net> <3B541487.37C8D01A@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > "R. Lahaye" wrote: > > > In a nutshell once again: > > > > I create a file "/some/directory/ports-supfile", > > add the above lines in it. Then call > > > > # cvsup -L2 /some/directory/ports-supfile > > > > Is that 100 percent save? > > Yes, it is safe. This should not touch any source or system files - only update > content of /usr/ports. Thanks, I've done that. Woow, downloaded a whole lot of stuff. I'm now pondering: If I install an updated port once again, does that require any preparations to avoid cluttering of old installed files? 1) Can I provide a special argument for updating, such as "make update" or so, that would perform something like: # pkg_delete some_software-[present installed version] # make # make install // install updated version In linux-rpm-language that would say "rpm -U ", which removes the old ones, and replaces that with the updated RPM. 2) If a newly updated software-port requires port_foo-1.5, but I have an older port_foo-1.1, then what will happen? Will I end up with both port_foo's installed, or does the make automagically remove the old one and install the new one on the fly. I'm just worried that by doing all those make's when updating the ports, that I will end up with more and more piles of cluttered files from outdated ports. Please bear in mind that I'm a FreeBSD user for little over a week now (coming from Linux). I'm still trying to figure out how FBSD software is organized. Thanks for your help. I appreciate that very much! Best regards, Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message