Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:20:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Right way to upgrade a port Message-ID: <XFMail.990526152048.cpiazza@home.net> In-Reply-To: <19990526151708.D344@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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On 26-May-99 Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> I was just wondering what is the right way to upgrade a port...
> say i have foobar-1.2 and the port has been upgraded to foobar-2.0
>
> do I
>
> 1. pkg_delete foobar-1.2
> cd /usr/ports/misc/foobar
> make install
>
> 2. cd /usr/ports/misc/foobar
> make install
>
> how do you guys do it and why?
I think the True Way is #1. Doing #2 has a few nasties such as leaving old
files around and having a very polluted /var/db/pkg.
>
> p.s. wouln't it be cool if you could install on top of the old version
> and later remove the new version just to find out that the old version
> still works. :)
I have a feeling that that would require a lot of hard drive space for backups
:-). There could be the odd chance that would work. Say, if the new version
installed everything in a different place!
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