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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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