From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 21 3: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700C514D19 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 03:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.130]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB19D5; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:04:46 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA48776; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:58:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:58:46 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brent Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: upgrading ports packages Message-ID: <19991121115846.D48139@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991121 10:52], Brent (brent@kearneys.ca) wrote: > >If I CVSup'd my ports tree, and there are new versions of software I have >installed, what is the best way to upgrade? Will "make install" just >overwrite the old version? > >"make deinstall" won't work, because the versions are different. ls /var/db/pkg will show the registered packages. pkg_delete [name from /var/db/pkg] will deinstall the package. Then you can install the new one. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Learn e-mail netiquette: http://www.lemis.com/email.html Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message