Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:24:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install Message-ID: <199802220424.VAA27120@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:34:49 PST." <23951.888111289@time.cdrom.com> References: <23951.888111289@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <23951.888111289@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : Probably the only truly non-hostile way of handling it would be to : give each subsequent version of a port an "upgrade" hook which would : do very specific and specialized things to upgrade it, removing only : those components which were known to be dreck in the new port and : selectively upgrading other components as necessary (each component : also having its own semi-intelligent update procedure). In other words, : try to encapsulate the kind of work that an expert user would do by : hand in upgrading the port. But that's also a lot of work. :-( Heck, I'd by happy with a warning and/or an option to remove the old port before installing the new. However, that, as you said, has its own problems. the ssh host key is currently spammed on each new install, which is an annoying problem :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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