At 12:54 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> 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)
hmmmmm.... every port I've installed has fetched the dependencies which are also listed with the port info. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
