Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:08:51 -0500 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) Message-ID: <199907112008.PAA25034@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:06:33 EDT."
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Chris called, > All users have to do is select a package from a list, which is organized by > categories, and is searchable, and then hit enter to install. How can it be > easier? And all from a semi-graphical view in /stand/sysinstall. NOW, if > you could only get a list of installed packages and have the ability to > uninstall them from /stand/sysinstall, it's be perfect! :) pkg_info will give you a list of what's installed, and then you can unmark them in /stand/sysinstall > I do have one "gripe" about the ports. It would be nice if that 'make > deinstall' was smart enough to deinstall a previous version of a package. > E.g. if you have samba-2.0.3 installed and the port is up to samba-2.0.4, it > would be nice if the 'make deinstall' was smart enought to remove the 2.0.3 > and not give an error that 2.0.4 isn't installed. I realize that this is > easier said than done, and if I knew how to implement that myself it would > have already been done. What I'd like is some equivalent of "make world" that checks & updates packages that are installed or marked to be installed, rather than eveything . . . -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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