> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500 > From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 12:21 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > > > >Rus, > > > >Please take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, as it is the > >appropriate tool for these sort of upgrades. > > > >Circumstantial evidence over the years has led me to believe that most > >ports will actually successfully and without issue overwrite their > >previous iterations that were also installed via the ports tree (lynx, > >wget, things like that). > > > >----- > >John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com > > > >
> If you don't mind first deinstalling the old port, then a simple way is to: > # pkg_delete <foo_1> > ...then cd /usr/ports/foo_2: > #make install clean > > You are now up to date..... This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to handle these. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
