From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 9 4:36:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B051537B566 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 04:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12T2Aa-000Hbd-00; Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:36:00 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:36:00 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove old port before installing new one ... Message-ID: <20000309143600.B67430@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 2000-03-08 (23:21), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > I got pointed to pkg_version the other day, and just love it .. have been > cleaning up my system ever since ... > > Just curious as to why this isn't used more though? For instance, why not > use it to check for an older version of the port and upgrade accordingly, > doing a pkg_delete on the old one before installing the new, if possible? It should be easy enough to set up some checking that'll fail a good 10-30% of the time. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message