Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 00:20:51 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install newer version over old one... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070017370.17532-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061859001.84248-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Mike Muir wrote:
>
> > > how? I have kde 1.1.1 installed on my machine...want to upgrade to 1.1.2,
> > > but a 'make reinstall' (or 'make install') finds all the existing packages
> > > so does nothing...
> > >
> > > need some sort of 'make install-ignoring-the-already-installed-progs' ...
> > > is there one?
> >
> > make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=YES
>
> Probably safer to manually pkg_delete all of the kde* packages first -
> this way you won't get bitten by any dependencies (e.g. linking against
> wrong library versions when you recompile, or 1.1.2 finding leftover files
> from 1.1.1 and acting weirdly, etc). Plus you won't have any port turds in
> your tree from files which disappeared or moved in 1.1.2.
>
> You might lose some dependency information if you have things like kbiff
> installed - you can just edit those back into the +REQUIRED_BY files if it
> really bothers you, though.
has anyone looked into/thought of some sort of 'make upgrade-all' command
that would ignore that a dependency is already installed and reinstall it?
basically, skip the check for it to be installed?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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