Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:51:41 -0700 From: David Ericson Thiel <lx@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc? Message-ID: <20070811175141.GA85304@redundancy.redundancy.org> In-Reply-To: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com>
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Did one upgrade applications through a series of "make deinstall reinstall" > commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependencies too) or was > there any other way? I used pkg_version -c, which has now been removed. It spit out a shell script that did the relevant upgrade commands, but wasn't perfect. OpenBSD still has this option, and it's a perl script, so you can probably still use that one if you're allergic to portupgrade/portmaster.
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