From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 14: 1: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flits.cs.vu.nl (flits.cs.vu.nl [192.31.231.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A1514EDB for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronald@cs.vu.nl) Received: from localhost by flits.cs.vu.nl with esmtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #57) id m10nTju-0005juC; Fri, 28 May 99 23:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 23:00:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ronald Klop To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing a new version of a port Message-ID: X-Homepage-URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ronald X-Organization: "Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, When I install a new version of a program via a port, should I deinstall the old version first than? Or can I use 'make reinstall'? I want to upgrade icewm (windowmanager) in particular. Or how can I preserve my settings else? Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Vrije Universiteit http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ronald/ +31 (0)20 (44)47709 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message