From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 6:14:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B36814BE4 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 06:14:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 84224 invoked by uid 374); 14 Nov 1999 14:14:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 16:14:06 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports and upgrading as i have seen Message-ID: <19991114161406.D57266@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 11:00:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun 1999-11-14 (11:00), Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Well the good news to the beginning I managed cvsup to get running > (it can resolve IP -addresses now). > What I have made (probably too quikly):I upgraded my ports tree(now it has > kde java irc entries and everything lokks great). > What I failed to make:I surely would to upgrade my software using > following pattern: > make deinstall apsfilter 5.0.1 > make install apsfilter 5.1.3 have a look at pkg_info, pkg_add , and pkg_delete Pkg_delete, to remove an old version of the package. then do your normal ports install. pkg_info gives you nice lisitngs of whats currently installed Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message