From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 16: 6:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14F137B642 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id DAA19096; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:09:26 +0200 Message-ID: <393D840E.FEEB5BCE@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 01:06:54 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Caleb Land Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Gnome (or any other port installed software) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Caleb Land wrote: > Hello, > I've been using FreeBSD 4.0 for a couple of months (I needed to use the > current one because of my ATA/66 controller card), and I would like to know > what the ``proper'' method is to upgrade a large package such as Gnome from > ports. I don't mind custimizing the software again (if there > areincompatibilities), just as long as it works. This is somewhat uncomfortable, but manageable: First, pkg_info -aI|grep gnome tells you wich packages need to be updated. For each of those packages pkg_delete to get rid of all the old versions. Note which packages you have installed -- this may be a considerable long list, especially with mega-ports as gnome. After that cd /usr/ports/gnome/x11/gnome; make all install clean and you're set up again. repeat for anything still missing from your list noted earlier. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message