Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:13:17 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: John Kozubik <john@www.kozubik.com>, Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021007171317.012014c0@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20021007195404.F40B95D06@ptavv.es.net> References: <Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 CDT." <3.0.5.32.20021007144923.012014c0@mail.sage-one.net>
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At 12:54 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500 >> From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> At 12:21 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >> > >> >Rus, >> > >> >Please take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, as it is the >> >appropriate tool for these sort of upgrades. >> > >> >Circumstantial evidence over the years has led me to believe that most >> >ports will actually successfully and without issue overwrite their >> >previous iterations that were also installed via the ports tree (lynx, >> >wget, things like that). >> > >> >----- >> >John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com >> > >> > > >> If you don't mind first deinstalling the old port, then a simple way is to: >> # pkg_delete <foo_1> >> ...then cd /usr/ports/foo_2: >> #make install clean >> >> You are now up to date..... > > >This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the >dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to >handle these. > >R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) hmmmmm.... every port I've installed has fetched the dependencies which are also listed with the port info. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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