From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 17:50:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21766 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21760 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id RAA48656; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:50:09 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id RAA21625; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Brett Taylor cc: VEGA , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: removing crufty libraries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Brett Taylor wrote: >Ooh - installing over is not usually a good idea. If you used the port to >install it you can do the following (as root): > > cd /var/db/pkg > pkg_delete old_port_I_don't_want > >If you have CVSupped the latest ports you can then go to the ports tree to >build the latest greatest version. > >Note that things like imlib that may have been installed w/ say >Enlightenment may need a "pkg_delete -f old_port" as they are listed as >dependencies. Everything that Brett has said is good. I would just add that sometimes old crufty software depend on old crufty libraries. You may want to make a closer examination of what you need. I did have one case, one time, where I needed an old library to get something working. Eventually the port was upgraded to the new libary and all was good. The way FreeBSD does this excellent. It does not _assume_ that you want to get rid of old crufty stuff. Certain commercial OS will. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message