Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:54:16 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de> Cc: "Passki, Jonathan P" <jpasski@kpmg.com>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: pkg_version Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012041051490.3656-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <14885.12483.338680.900539@i30nb2.ira.uka.de>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Espen Skoglund wrote: > [Passki, Jonathan P] > > [...] > > > Feel free to flame, I put on the fire retardant suit when I wrote > > this :) I'm blaming most of this on myself for perhaps a lack of > > understanding, but there have been many before with the same > > question. Also, wouldn't this be good advocacy to house a more > > robust port system? > > Yes. Package upgrading should really be a bit cleaner. What I > usually end up doing is to move the +REQUIRED_BY file away from the > /var/db/pkg directory, delete the port, reinstall it, and move the > +REQUIRED_BY file into /var/db/pkg directory again. > > Also, for deinstalling all packages that depends on one particular > package, one might do something like: > > pkg_info -qR <package name> | xargs pkg_delete -f > > What I really miss though, is for the pkg_ utilities to be able to > recognize bare package names (i.e., without the version suffix). Is > there any reason for not having this feature? > It's interesting how different people come to the same conclusions. I'm using the same way to update my packages as well. If I'll hack the "make install" target and pkg_install, are there any chances on earth that it'll get committed? --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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