From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 29 9: 4:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from iraun1.ira.uka.de (iraun1.ira.uka.de [129.13.10.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F31537B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from i30nb2.ira.uka.de by iraun1 (PP) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:03:57 +0100 Received: (from esk@localhost) by i30nb2.ira.uka.de (8.11.0/8.11.1) id eATH3s284047; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:03:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from esk) From: Espen Skoglund MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14885.13995.677725.27115@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:02:35 +0100 (CET) To: Vivek Khera Cc: "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: pkg_version In-Reply-To: <14885.13453.374790.421275@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881AEC@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com> <14885.12483.338680.900539@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> <14885.13453.374790.421275@onceler.kciLink.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "VK" == Vivek Khera writes: >>>>> "ES" == Espen Skoglund writes: ES> Yes. Package upgrading should really be a bit cleaner. What I ES> usually end up doing is to move the +REQUIRED_BY file away from ES> the /var/db/pkg directory, delete the port, reinstall it, and ES> move the +REQUIRED_BY file into /var/db/pkg directory again. VK> You also need to go back to all packages listed in +REQUIRED_BY VK> and update the dependency in +CONTENTS if the upgraded package VK> version number changes. True. But this is only needed if you want to create a package-file from the installed package, isn't it? eSk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message